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Ecosystem as Structure Open
Over the past 20 years, the term “ecosystem” has become pervasive in discussions of strategy, both scholarly and applied. Its rise has mirrored an increasing interest and concern among both researchers and managers with interdependence acr…
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Nuances in the Interplay of Competition and Cooperation: Towards a Theory of Coopetition Open
Progress in coopetition research is impeded by two problems in the literature: (a) superficial conceptualization of simultaneity and outcomes and (b) lack of theorizing about core properties of coopetition and how they influence outcomes. …
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Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation Open
Coopetition (collaboration between competitors) can facilitate product innovation, but there is still debate about how it is suited to radical or incremental innovation. This paper argues that the early and later phases of coopetitive new …
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Digital platform-based ecosystems: The evolution of collaboration and competition between incumbent producers and entrant platforms Open
The rise of the Internet has seen traditional incumbent producers challenged by competition from digital entrant platforms. It is unclear, however, how those two types of actors—which are in competition but also mutually dependent—can co-e…
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Production Coopetition Strategies for Competing Manufacturers that Produce Partially Substitutable Products Open
This study examines the strategic choices of two rival manufacturers between competition and coopetition. A complex relationship exists between these two firms, who manufacture substitutive products. In addition, each of these firms has an…
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Managing Coopetition in Supplier Networks – A Paradox Perspective Open
Scholars in the field of supply chain management have started to embrace the idea of simultaneous cooperation and competition (“coopetition”) in supplier networks but have mainly looked at coopetition from a structural perspective. In this…
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Coopetition in business Ecosystems: The key role of absorptive capacity and supply chain agility Open
This study aims to shed light on the mechanisms that enable firms to manage the contradictory logics of coopetition (i.e. simultaneous cooperation and competition) in business ecosystems to achieve superior performance. In particular, we e…
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Diversity is strategy: the effect of R&D team diversity on innovative performance Open
Diversity in the workplace has attracted significant interest in organisations that want to attract and retain talented employees. Breakthrough innovation requires a wider knowledge base, and organisations increasingly rely on multidiscipl…
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Supplier–supplier coopetition and supply chain disruption: first-tier supplier resilience in the tetradic context Open
Purpose The present study considers disruption in the buyer–supplier–supplier triad. This triad has a common second-tier supplier as the disruption source, which gives us the tetradic context. The goal is to advance the knowledge on how a …
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Benefits and Drawbacks of Coopetition: The Roles of Scope and Durability in Coopetitive Relationships Open
The growing importance of cooperative relationships may currently be observed throughout the world. The vast majority of such relationships take the form of coopetition, i.e., the simultaneous existence of cooperation and competition betwe…
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Universities as orchestrators of the development of regional innovation ecosystems in emerging economies Open
This paper analyses the role of universities as orchestrators of the development of a regional ecosystem that is conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship. We argue that universities in emerging economies, due to many social challenges,…
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Moderators affecting the relationship between coopetition and company performance Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating factors that could affect the relationship between coopetition (the interplay between cooperation and competition) and company performance. Design/methodology/approach Under th…
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The Routledge Companion to Coopetition Strategies Open
This reference volume is the first to provide a comprehensive international survey of co-opetition research. Organised thematically and written by the world's most cited researchers in the field, it views the topic through the lens of a va…
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Developing and validating a multi-dimensional measure of coopetition Open
Purpose Coopetition, namely, the interplay between cooperation and competition, has received a good deal of interest in the business-to-business marketing literature. Academics have operationalised the coopetition construct and have used t…
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Revisiting the cooperation–competition paradox: A configurational approach to short- and long-term coopetition performance in business networks Open
Cooperation and competition are often viewed as incompatible, antagonistic forces, thus are operationalized as two extremes on a continuum. However, they can coexist and even enable each other, thus may be operationalized as orthogonal con…
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Coopetition for sustainability: Between organizational benefit and societal good Open
Sustainable development requires coopetition, that is, the cooperation of organizations that compete at the same time. Research on coopetition for sustainability is sparse. From a sustainability perspective, coopetition contributes to sust…
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The invention performance implications of coopetition: How technological, geographical, and product market overlaps shape learning and competitive tension in R&D alliances Open
Research Summary We examine how technological, geographical, and product market overlaps between a firm and its alliance partner influence the firm's invention performance by shaping the learning and competitive tension in an R&D alliance.…
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Competition and partnership between conformity and payoff-based imitations in social dilemmas Open
Learning from a partner who collects higher payoff is a frequently used\nworking hypothesis in evolutionary game theory. One of the alternative\ndynamical rules is when the focal player prefers to follow the strategy choice\nof the majorit…
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Toward a social practice theory of relational competing Open
Research Summary: This article brings together the competitive dynamics and strategy‐as‐practice literatures to investigate relational competition. Drawing on a global ethnography of the reinsurance market, we develop the concept of micro‐…
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The facets, antecedents and consequences of coopetition Open
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the facets, antecedents and consequences of coopetition using three dimensions of entrepreneurial marketing. Coopetition is the interplay between competition and cooperation in which companie…
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Managing tension in coopetition through mutual dependence and asymmetries: A longitudinal study of a Norwegian R&D alliance Open
Strategic alliances between competitors (coopetition) is perceived to be full of tensions that needs to be managed. This study explore the evolution of a Norwegian coopetition alliance, through how firms handle tensions over time. The stud…
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Competitor Perceptions in Tourism Coopetition Open
Our study aims at understanding how coopeting tourism managers perceive their competitors. Competitor perceptions are consequential because they have implications for interfirm relationships. Collaboration with competitors offers benefits …
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Coping with coopetition<b>—</b>Facing dilemmas in cooperation for sustainable development: The case of the Dutch smart grid industry Open
This paper is amongst the first to examine coopetition strategy for sustainable development at the network level. Companies who want to successfully implement complex innovative technologies that support sustainable development need to col…
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Learning strategic cooperative behavior in industrial symbiosis: A game‐theoretic approach integrated with agent‐based simulation Open
This paper investigates the negotiation phase of industrial symbiosis relationships, where companies exchanging wastes for inputs need to develop strategies on how to share the additional costs to operate the industrial symbiosis business.…
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Rethinking competition-based entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus with the university-based business plan competition (BPC) and proposes how the theory of effectuation might inform a new model. Such a purpose is timely given the under-challenged nature of the…
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Beyond competing for talent: an integrative framework for coopetition in talent management in SMEs Open
Purpose This paper aims to unpack how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can operationalise coopetition in talent management, addressing ongoing talent shortages in the hospitality industry which were intensified during the Covid-19…
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Packs, Troops and Herds: Prosocial Cooperatives and Innovation in the New Normal Open
Prosocial organizations are emerging to tackle the effects of a New Normal. As they navigate its fragile and liquid institutional membranes, they prioritize cooperative forms of governance. These forms allow for collaboration and democrati…
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Coopetition and innovation. Lessons from worker cooperatives in the Spanish machine tool industry Open
Purpose This paper aims to investigate how the implementation of the inter-cooperation principle among Spanish machine-tool cooperatives helps them to coopete–collaborate with competitors, in their innovation and internationalization proce…
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Why Do Experts Solve Complex Problems Using Open Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry Open
This article investigates how project expertise and complexity jointly impact the decision to adopt open or closed innovation. It identifies four different types of open innovation models—crowdsourcing, coopetition, science-based, and netw…
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Tourism destination: The networking approach Open
Different approaches to the analysis of tourism destinations as the basic units of research in tourism, are reviewed in this paper. Traditional geographical and economic perspectives are presented as the bases for more modern system and ne…