...Aliasghar Aliakbari; James M. Crick; Wei-Fen Chen; Dave Crick Purpose This paper addresses a problem within the existing body of knowledge pertinent to business-to-business (B2B) settings, concerning the contrasting prior findings in respect of the relationship between coopetition (collaboration...

... capital market investors into the RBV framework, emphasizing their critical role in evaluating coopetition strategies and profit distribution. Third, it refines R-A Theory by showing that optimal coopetitor configurations are context-dependent, shaped by the alignment of internal strategy, inter-firm...

...Andreas Ekeskär; Malena I. Havenvid Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain deeper insight into the nature of forced coopetitive relationships by investigating the aspects favouring cooperative and competitive interactions in relationships between third-party logistics (TPL) providers...

... channel. The research can provide guidance on how manufacturers who own exclusive selling platform strategically choose channel coopetition modes based on competitors’ response to join, thereby improving performance. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights...

...Graciela Corral de Zubielqui; Peter Guckenbiehl; Janice Jones; Hussain Gulzar Rammal Purpose This study aims to explore how variations in goal congruity and lifecycle stages influence start-ups’ approaches to coopetition and how these factors shape their strategies for competing and cooperating...

...Siarhei Manzhynski; Galina Biedenbach; Tatbeeq Raza-Ullah; Alina Źróbek-Różańska Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of cognitive and behavioral mechanisms on sustainability performance within the context of coopetition for sustainability. In particular, it investigates how coopetition...

...Jinjing Li; Haizhe Yu; Lili Gao Purpose Coopetition as a rising type of interfirm relationship is proved to be beneficial to firms in multiple aspects, which received much scholarly attention. However, the consistency of different theories in the area is criticized to be eroded by conceptual...

...Maicom Sergio Brandao; Moacir Godinho Filho; Gilberto Miller Devós Ganga; Jorge Renato Verschoore Purpose This study aims to unravel the complex coopetitive interactions in supply chains. It delves into the paradoxical relationship between cooperative and competitive interactions among supply...

...Mengjie Zhang; Xiaolin Li Purpose This study aims to grounded in the dynamic capability theory and focuses on the dynamic exchange capability framework, encompassing networkbuilding capability and resource integration capability, to explore the relationship between coopetition and resilience...

... recent years of primary data collection (2012–2022). Design/methodology/approach This paper developed a qualitative study that looks at coopetition and institutions and considers the GI as an institution. It collected the data from 33 representatives of the Brazilian wine industry in three stages...

...Henrik Virtanen; Peter Björk Purpose Previous research on the impact of coopetition on innovation performance has provided contradictory results. Thus, this study aims to fill the gap by gathering data to explain the impact of coopetition on service innovation, considering the partners...

... 03 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Supply chain management Customer bargaining power Product market overlap Supplier profitability Coopetition Customer bargaining power significantly affects supplier...

...Rui Xu; Xiaoxuan Zhu; Yu Wang; Jibao Gu; Christian Felzensztein Purpose Innovativeness is crucial for industrial cluster firms to gain sustained competitive advantage. This study aims to investigate the effects of inter-firm coopetition on firm innovativeness within a cluster and examines...

...Felipe Chávez-Bustamante; Cristián Troncoso-Valverde Purpose This paper aims to study the role of absorptive capacities in coopetitive alliances that involve leakages of sensitive private knowledge regarding firms’ production processes. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a game...

...Abhilasha Meena; Sanjay Dhir; Sushil Sushil While the apparent reasons for practicing coopetition are primarily attributed to cost-cutting, hedging risks or simply bypassing the reiteration of efforts and resources, the benefits surrounding it are far more (Seepana et al., 2020...

... The purpose of this study is to elaborate on the management, sources, levels of strength and dynamics of inherent tension in coopetition between small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs). An embedded single-case design is applied in the study. Two manufacturing SMEs in coopetition are studied. The units...

...Jefferson Marlon Monticelli; Ivan Lapuente Garrido; Luciana Marques Vieira; Adriana Fumi Chim-Miki; Jorge Carneiro Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effects of formal institution agents on export performance, mediated by coopetition. It presents novel scales for evaluating firms...

...Brett Letcher; Margarietha de Villiers Scheepers; Wayne Graham Purpose This paper aims to explore small firm perceptions of coopetition, focusing on coopetitive tension, balance and value appropriation realised in dyadic relationships, not considered holistically in previous research. Design...

...Junping Yang; Mengjie Zhang Purpose This paper aims to explore coopetition within the entrepreneurial ecosystem and answer the following two fundamental questions: How does coopetition affect the entrepreneurial learning and performance of startups? and What learning strategies should startups...

... a better understanding of how R&D partner attributes tie into configurations is an issue that is attracting particular interest in coopetition research and alliance literature. This paper aims to obtain a better knowledge of this underrated, but important, aspect of alliances by exploring what...