The Model for Quality Strategic Partner Number Decision-making of Food Enterprises

In view of the risks that increasingly reducing partner numbers may cause overly relying on small numbers of or even single partner which may induce opportunism behaviors, it constructed an opportunism-preventing based partner number decision-making model, and solved the optimized partner numbers. It also analyzed the impacts of related parameters on partner number decision-making. Results showed that, if the marginal benefits from operation are greater than opportunistic losses, or transaction costs are greater, fewer partners should be selected or more partners otherwise. Single partner policy is suitable only in those special situations where cooperation benefits is great enough hand/or where transaction costs is too much great.