@article{Taylor:100718,
      recid = {100718},
      author = {Taylor, Philip J.},
      title = {Has Australia fallen behind the strategic alliance  contracting trend in the global food industry? If so, is  government assistance warranted?},
      address = {2011},
      number = {422-2016-26959},
      pages = {29},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Since the 1970s, there has been a broad shift from arm‘s  length to long-term strategic alliance procurement  practices across nations and industries. This has happened  for sound commercial reasons. Peculiarities of agricultural  production have slowed this shift in many food industry  sectors, but it is now proceeding apace – driven primarily  by rapidly globalising supermarket chains. In most  Australian agri-food sectors, few firms have the scale or  level of sophistication that would make them attractive  strategic alliance partners either for international food  retailers or for their category managers. The reasons for  this include a combination of past government failures  (inappropriate policies) and failures or inefficiencies in  a range of information markets. The long-term nature of  strategic alliances generates significant first-mover  advantages for suppliers. Australian food producers risk  being locked out of attractive opportunities if they fail  to adapt to the new mode of contracting. For regional  economies, the long-term benefits from accelerating  strategic alliance adoption are likely to be large. Such  benefits will flow on to many who are not usually  considered private beneficiaries of that adoption. In other  words, there are significant public benefits in prospect.  While the results of past government intervention in this  field have been mixed, there has been much learnt  internationally from such experience. In Australia, many of  the inappropriate policies have now been reversed and the  prospects for cost-effective government assistance in the  relevant information markets are good.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100718},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.100718},
}