Are co-operation and partnerships dead?
13 September 2012
Opinion is divided over partnerships: do they stop buyers from doing their job, or are they vital to reputation, innovation and keeping customers? Two commentators make opposing cases
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John Ramsay
Reader and senior lecturer in economics, Staffordshire
University Business School
Back in 1979, I wrote a piece for the then Purchasing and Supply Management about the perils of buyer-supplier co-operation. In the 24 years since then, the problems of co-operation have continued to interest me and...