This study analyzed 119 strategic alliances formed during the period 1987–91. Using the event study methodology, we found that announcements of technological alliances enjoyed greater abnormal retu...

Impact of Strategic Alliances on Firm Valuation

Coopetition—Quo vadis? Past accomplishments and future challenges

Coopetition describes an interorganizational relationship that combines “cooperation” and “competition”. During recent years, coopetition has become an important domain for industrial practice which has led to an increasing rate of publications in academic journals. Despite the growing interest, coopetition research is still fragmented, reflected by divergent uses of the coopetition concept, a lack of generalizability, and a limited contextual focus. This article presents a systematic literature review and a synthesis of high-quality contributions in this field with a focus on a general overview of research on coopetition, coopetition as a strategy, and the management of coopetition. By critically evaluating the current body of literature and definitions, and connecting it to other promising domains, we develop a new definition of coopetition and highlight several promising areas for future research, such as the elaboration of theoretical and empirical approaches, the consideration of contextual contingencies, and implications for innovation that involves interorganizational knowledge flow.

Coopetition: A systematic review, synthesis, and future research directions

The traditional view of inter-firm dynamics suggests that relationships are either competitive or cooperative in nature. However, it is apparent that in practice, firms can compete and cooperate with each other at the same time. The term used to refer to a relationship between two firms that simultaneously involves both competition and cooperation is "coopetition." Although there is evidence to suggest that organizations have been involved in coopetitive relationships for some considerable time, it is only relatively recently that the subject has found increased favor in the academic literature. It would appear, however, that the literature concerning coopetition is still limited in scope, and in order to address the issue, this paper presents an agenda for researchers interested in the subject of coopetition. The agenda is generated by reconciling a review of the literature on coopetition with a similar review of the literature relating to competition and cooperation. The agenda also incorporates two inn...

Coopetition: An Introduction to the Subject and an Agenda for Research

Strategy research on inter-firm cooperation has been commonly affected by a collaborative bias, implicitly assuming that firms interact among each other on the basis of fully converging interests and goals. Yet, plenty of empirical evidence shows that cooperation is affected by the intrusion of competitive issues and that consequently results in a game structure that actually moves away from the ideal circumstance of complete convergent interests. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it proposes the notion of cooperation as a truly coopetitive game, where firms interact among each other on the basis of a partially convergent interest structure. Second, it develops a series of propositions linking the rise of coopetition to a set of, respectively, environment-related and firm-related factors in order to explain the drivers of the intrusion of competitive issues within a cooperative game structure. The study eventually provides relevant implications for strategy research that we discuss in the final...

Untangling the Rise of Coopetition: The Intrusion of Competition in a Cooperative Game Structure

This article examines a growing form of interorganizational "multifaceted" relationship under "coopetition," where a buyer, supplier, and/or partner is also a competitor. We first describe different types of such relationships and the strategic dilemmas they present. Then, using resource dependence and transaction cost theories, we consider the antecedent conditions for the formation of such relationships and discuss strategies for dealing with them. Finally, we consider questions for further study of these types of arrangements.

Barbara A. Carlin

Papers

Multifaceted Relationships Under Coopetition Description and Theory

Sleeping with the enemy: Doing business with a competitor