The Interaction Patterns of Collaborative Partners between Firms: An Example of Supply Chain Partnership

The sample was drawn from the supply chain partners in Taiwan’s enterprises. Their collaboration status and partnering extent are also analyzed.

The results suggest that most large-scale manufacturers in Taiwan have long been in the supply chain partnership. Primarily, the collaboration performances increase significantly with the partnering extent. We also found that purely task-oriented mode is not efficient in inter- organizational team coordination during development of a partnering activity; informal communication and people role have to be included for a better coordination performance.