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发表于 2012-12-14 19:59:21 | 显示全部楼层 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
In recent years, Western business managers have been heeding the exhortations of business journalists and academics to move their companies toward long-term, collaborative “strategic partnerships” with their external business partners (e.g., suppliers). The experts’ advice comes as a natural reaction to numerous studies conducted during the past decade that compared Japanese production and supply practices with those of the rest of the world. (15) The link between the success of a certain well-known Japanese automaker and its effective management of its suppliers, for example, has led to an (20) unquestioning belief within Western management circles in the value of strategic partnerships. Indeed, in the automobile sector all three United States manufacturers and most of their European competitors have launched programs to reduce their total number of suppliers and move toward having strategic partnerships with a few.
     However, new research concerning supplier relationships in various industries demonstrates that the widespread assumption of Western managers and business consultants that Japanese firms manage their suppliers primarily through strategic partnerships is (38) unjustified. Not only do Japanese firms appear to conduct a far smaller proportion of their business through strategic partnerships than is commonly believed, but they also make extensive use of “market-exchange” relationships, in which either party can turn to the marketplace and shift to different business partners at will, a practice usually associated with Western manufacturers. (49)


Which of the following is most clearly an example of the practice referred to in lines 38-49 of the passage?

A.    A department store chain that employs a single buyer to procure all the small appliances to be sold in its stores.
B.    An automobile manufacture that has used the same supplier of a particular axle component for several years in a row.
C.    A hospital that contracts only with union personnel to staff its nonmedical positions.
D.    A municipal government that decides to cancel its contract with a waste disposal company and instead hire its own staff to perform that function.
E.    A corporation that changes the food-service supplier for its corporate headquarters several times over a five-year period as part of a cost-cutting campaign.


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 楼主| 发表于 2012-12-15 13:31:13 | 显示全部楼层
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