Packed for foreign fields
13 September 2012
Western businesses should stop piling into Asia without thinking in detail about how to run relationships with suppliers a world away from home, warns Richard May
Another week and another round of companies getting on board with sourcing from China - it's the current buzz in chief executive circles. A flood of companies are visiting the country, often via Hong Kong, hellbent on sourcing from there. But unfortunately we are seeing too much hasty adventurism and too little careful thought about the processes that should accompany...