Strategic collaboration in supply chain networks
Businesses collaborate in supply chain networks to strengthen their strategic position in markets and business ecosystems. Collaboration provides businesses with valuable resources (including data and knowledge), high quality supplies, bargaining power, and opportunities for joint innovation. Through collaboration, businesses can achieve shared benefits and promote sustainability.
What we offer
We analyse how different collaboration structures and strategies, for instance in cooperatives, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and partnerships, affect business’ financial and sustainability performance. By understanding the dynamics of collaboration, we offer insights into effective partnerships.
We have extensive knowledge on collaboration in supply chain networks and on value chain development. We know how the sustainability ambition of businesses (perhaps in response to societal or regulatory pressure) translates into new inter- and intra-organisational structures and procedures of collaboration.
We provide insights into different organisational forms, depending on their (joint) goals and aspirations. For instance, what type of contracting arrangements are most suitable for collaboration among value chain partners? We also have extensive expertise on producer cooperatives and other collective action organisations in the agrifood sector.