Article: Can the food industry build problem-solving partnerships?

Can the food industry build problem-solving partnerships?

You might call it the businessman's Woodstock. Over the past few years, American companies have embraced concepts like cooperative management, where workers are consulted about how to make products; and partnering, where suppliers and customers share strategic information and solve problems together.

Throughout the country, business is trying to mend adversarial relationships and stress cooperative efforts. Why? To improve productivity and counter the enormous industrial strength of global competitors, and to reinvigorate "mature" American industries.

"Partnering" relationships, however, do ...

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