“Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition”

Co-opetition, distributor’s entrepreneurial orientation and manufacturer’s knowledge acquisition: Evidence from China

By viewing cooperation and different types of conflicts as “co-opetition” factors in a manufacturer– distributor supply chain, this paper provides a conceptual model for examining the effects of cooperation and conflicts on a manufacturer’s knowledge acquisition process and for exploring the moderating effects of a distributor’s entrepreneurial orientation on the relationships between co-opetit...

Collaboration and competition in export firms: The link between co-opetition and export innovation

1. Introduction Co-opetition (cooperation with competitors) has recently emerged and gained its popularity in the last several decades, emphasizing better usage of comparative advantage, value creation, and sharing R&D risks and costs (Dittrich and Duysters, 2007; Ritala, 2012). Extant literature on co-opetition provides evidence that this strategy can positively affect innovation and Generic s...

SMEs Co-opetition and Knowledge Sharing: The IS Role

Co-opetition, simultaneous co-operation and competition, is a recent phenomenon. Co-opetition entails sharing knowledge that may be a key source of competitive advantage. Yet, the knowledge gained by cooperation may also be used for competition. There is little investigation of how this problem may be modeled and, hence, managed. A game-theoretic framework for analysing inter-organisational kno...

Collaboration in the Third Sector : From co - opetition to impact driven cooperation

Data mining the MNC like internal co-opetition duality in a university context

Data mining the MNC like internal co-opetition duality in a university context. Abstract The goal of the paper is to quantify the simultaneous competition and cooperation that takes place in organizations. As the concepts seem to be dichotomous opposites at first, the term internal co-opetition duality is put forth. Parallels are drawn between co-opetitive processes in big multinational corpora...