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Collective competition and the dynamics of market reconfiguration

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  • Hertz, Susanne
  • Mattsson, Lars-Gunnar

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We apply a markets-as-networks perspective in seeking to understand how cooperation and competition between firms drive the reconfiguration of markets under conditions of collective competition. More specifically we focus on strategic actions undertaken by firms with a view to establishing, maintaining and changing strategic alliances for performing coordinated but spatially dispersed activities in the international goods transport market. We suggest that a particular alliance process is interdependent with other reconfiguration processes within the market context of which it is a part. We identify and analyse a number of such interdependent network processes. We specifically discuss interactions between cooperation and competition, alliance stabilization and strategic actions under conditions of collective competition, and formulate a number of associated propositions.

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  • Hertz, Susanne & Mattsson, Lars-Gunnar, 0. "Collective competition and the dynamics of market reconfiguration," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 20(1-2), pages 31-51, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:20:y::i:1-2:p:31-51
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