Extended Corporation And The Research On The Operation Of It

This paper focuses on the study of the Expanded Corporation, which is the strategic alliance of supply chain. The whole is divided into four segments that are the answers of four questions: 1 what' s the expanded corporation? 2 why is the expanded corporation introduced? 3 how to construct the expanded corporation. 4 how to operate the expanded corporation. In the foreword segment, based on the analysis of the new conditions of international economics, the paper describes the times when the expanded corporation appears. In the first segment, the paper explains why the expanded corporation emerges by probing into the development of the managerial technology. After that, the affect of the system theory is discussed, which give another reason why the expanded corporation comes forth. Afterwards a new concept of the expanded corporation is bring forward, and the essentiality of the expanded corporation is revealed on the basis of the contrast of these similar concepts. In the second paragraph, the advantage of the economics efficiency of the expanded corporation is deliberated in the tool of the transaction fare economics. The competitive advantage of the expanded corporation is reasoned using the value chain theory, too. Combining the conclusion above, an important conclusion come out: the appearance of the expanded corporation change the way of the traditional competitive, which is converted from the competitive based on the single enterprise to the way based on the supply chain. At the end of the segment, the competitive advantage in the real operation is described in the contrast of the "lengthways combination" . In the third paragraph, the way to construct the expanded corporation is showed. In brief, the process of construction can be expounded as below: choosing the appropriate strategic partner essentially and rationally , then constructing the trust relationship of among the partners, last put the trust relationship to theeffect of the contract. In the forth paragraph, the models of the expanded corporation are raised, and the ways to operating the expanded corporation are depicted. In conclusion, the expanded corporation is a effective way which is adapted to the new economic conditions.