Virtual enterprise and strategic alliances

Author: Zhang Chengyao
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: The core issue of China's economic system reform is establishing a modern enterprise system, which means establishing the independent legal property rights of enterprises. We can call this the process of corporate "materialization" or "self-establishment." However, with the development of the market economy, enterprises cannot do everything on their own and cannot "depend on others for everything." In other words, enterprises must closely cooperate with other businesses or units to jointly improve their competitiveness and service levels. We can call this the process of corporate "virtualization" or "self-elimination." Chinese enterprises are currently in the overlap of both the "materialization wave" and the "virtualization wave." There is a close connection between the concepts of virtual enterprises and strategic alliances. From a temporal perspective, strategic alliances belong to long-term virtual enterprises with a certain duration, which we can call "broad virtual enterprises." Correspondingly, we refer to temporary strategic alliances or temporary enterprises as "narrow virtual enterprises." The book is divided into three parts: The first part is the overview, which discusses various topics such as the connotation of narrow virtual enterprises, finding business partners, reconstructing the industrial-agricultural alliance, an overview of auxiliary business outsourcing, the formation of supply chains, improving industrial-commercial relations, moving toward e-commerce, and the types of chain operations. The second part is the case study, involving enterprises such as Skyworth, Shanghai Petrochemical, Guangshen Railway Company, Doublestar Group, Zara, Eastar Group, Anhui Tobacco, Shanxi Jinshang, and Yageer, among others. The third part is the background, which primarily discusses relevant conditions, including the new challenges faced by corporate innovation, the internationalization strategies of China's manufacturing enterprises, strategic alliances and core competitiveness, and more. The intended readers of this book include business professionals, researchers in enterprise management, government administrators, students, and postgraduate students.