Today’s representative forms of inter-enterprise cooperation include: enterprise cooperation networks, strategic alliances, supply and demand chain management, enterprise groups, etc.

1. Enterprise cooperation network

Enterprise cooperation network regards the interdependent activity relationship between enterprises and economic organizations as a kind of enterprise network, and various types of enterprises engaged in such activities Economic actors are nodes in the network.

2. Strategic Alliance

Strategic alliance, also known as strategic alliance, is a contract or agreement between two or more enterprises or economic organizations in order to achieve a certain strategic purpose. A form of cooperation formed by a partial equity relationship.

3. Supply and demand chain management

Supply and demand chain management is actually the relationship between an enterprise and its suppliers, suppliers’ suppliers, and forward in sequence to the initial supplier, and with its sellers. , seller's seller, and then backwards to the relationship network chain between end users.

IV. Enterprise Groups

An enterprise group is a group of multiple legal entities with multiple levels through certain links, and allows for cross-industry, cross-department, cross-ownership, and cross-border formation. Large economic federation.

5. Business outsourcing

The concept advocated by business outsourcing is that if we are not the best in the world in a certain link of the enterprise value chain, if this is not our Core competitive advantage, if this activity does not separate us from our customers, then we should outsource it to the best professional companies in the world.

6. Virtual Enterprise

The so-called virtual enterprise refers to an enterprise that focuses on its own superior products or brands in order to obtain the greatest competitive advantage under the conditions of limited resources. An open organizational form composed of a number of small enterprises or workshops of different sizes and specialties, connected through information networks and rapid transportation systems.

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The significance of cooperation between enterprises

1. Increase the benefits of all parties involved in the cooperation. This is the fundamental basis for cooperation. Through cooperation, all parties can make use of the overall advantages of cooperation to make the cake bigger. At the same time, all parties involved in the cooperation can gain more benefits from it.

2. New markets can be created and developed through cooperation. Through cooperation, companies can join forces to leverage their respective advantages and jointly develop a market. If there is no cooperation between enterprises, it is sometimes impossible to open up a new field by relying on their own strength.

3. Through cooperation, the process of product development and launch into the market can be accelerated. Today's society is a very competitive one, and the market is changing very rapidly. When a market opportunity arises, many companies will soon compete for it.

Companies must develop products that meet this market opportunity as soon as possible, otherwise the company will be eliminated by the market. Therefore, companies must speed up the pace of product development. To speed up the pace of product development, in addition to the efforts of the company itself, the most important thing is cooperation.

4. Through cooperation, the costs and risks of all parties can be fully shared. The product development, production, sales and other activities of modern enterprises are becoming more and more complex, and enterprises are spending more and more costs on operations, which increases the risks of enterprise operations. Once decisions are made incorrectly or unpredictable consequences occur during the operation process, In this situation, the company is likely to suffer heavy losses or even be unable to recover.

Through cooperation, the costs of research, development and operation can be allocated to all parties involved, while the risks of operation are also distributed to each enterprise.

5. Promote the rational use of resources. In economic activities, all resources are not inexhaustible and must be used within a reasonable limit. Therefore, how to utilize limited resources and maximize their effectiveness is beneficial to everyone. However, under conditions of disorderly competition, it is difficult to ensure that resources are utilized rationally.

Reference materials:

Enterprise cooperation-Baidu Encyclopedia