IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/ijogbc/v19y2024i2d10.1007_s42943-024-00100-x.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Conceptual Framework of Coopetition: A Comparative Study of Coopetition Configurations in Multinational Companies and Large and Small and Medium Enterprises

Author

Listed:
  • Sahar Ayadi

    (University of Savoie Mont Blanc)

  • Laurent Tabourot

    (University of Savoie Mont Blanc)

  • Lotfi Khrifech

    (University of Sfax)

Abstract

This article focuses on the development of a conceptual framework for analyzing coopetition, a strategy that combines both collaboration and competition between competing firms. The aim of this framework is to capture the relational complexity of coopetition and dispel the ambiguity surrounding previous research on the outcomes of coopetition, which has often been limited to financial impact. Coopetition has many advantages for a variety of companies, regardless of their size or sector of activity. Our main contribution lies in the creation of a comprehensive analytical framework for exploring coopetition in different dimensions, such as types, forms and modes of governance, to determine corporate performance indicators. Our multifactorial approach integrates all the parameters of coopetition, particularly for very small businesses (VSEs) and small and medium–sized enterprises (SMEs), with the goal of defining the conditions for success. Methodologically, our qualitative analysis includes case studies of large manufacturing companies that have successfully implemented coopetition practices. Moreover, we explore the presence of coopetition in VSEs and SMEs. We highlight the specific strategies they have adopted and the results they have achieved. By qualitatively comparing cases of coopetition between large companies and cases of coopetition between SMEs, we are able to identify the specific strategies they have adopted and the results they have achieved.

Suggested Citation

  • Sahar Ayadi & Laurent Tabourot & Lotfi Khrifech, 2024. "Conceptual Framework of Coopetition: A Comparative Study of Coopetition Configurations in Multinational Companies and Large and Small and Medium Enterprises," International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 108-119, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijogbc:v:19:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s42943-024-00100-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s42943-024-00100-x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s42943-024-00100-x
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s42943-024-00100-x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Bouncken, Ricarda B. & Fredrich, Viktor, 2016. "Good fences make good neighbors? Directions and safeguards in alliances on business model innovation," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 69(11), pages 5196-5202.
    2. Oliver Gernsheimer & Dominik K Kanbach & Johanna Gast, 2021. "Coopetition research-A systematic literature review on recent accomplishments and trajectories," Post-Print hal-03514794, HAL.
    3. Anne-Sophie Fernandez & Frédéric Le Roy, 2010. "Pourquoi coopérer avec un concurrent ?. Une approche par la RBV," Revue française de gestion, Lavoisier, vol. 0(5), pages 155-169.
    4. Anne-Sophie Fernandez & Frédéric Le Roy, 2013. "Comment coopérer avec ses concurrents ?. L'avènement de l'équipe-projet coopétitive," Revue française de gestion, Lavoisier, vol. 0(3), pages 61-80.
    5. Anne-Sophie Fernandez & Paul Chiambaretto, 2016. "Managing tensions related to information in coopetition," Post-Print hal-02011849, HAL.
    6. Gnyawali, Devi R. & Park, Byung-Jin (Robert), 2011. "Co-opetition between giants: Collaboration with competitors for technological innovation," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(5), pages 650-663, June.
    7. Ricarda Bouncken & Johanna Gast & Sascha Kraus & Marcel Bogers, 2015. "Coopetition: a systematic review, synthesis, and future research directions," Post-Print hal-02018068, HAL.
    8. Colette Depeyre & Hervé Dumez, 2007. "Le rôle du client dans les stratégies de coopétition," Revue française de gestion, Lavoisier, vol. 0(7), pages 99-110.
    9. Tina Wolf & Uwe Cantner & Holger Graf & Michael Rothgang, 2019. "Cluster ambidexterity towards exploration and exploitation: strategies and cluster management," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 44(6), pages 1840-1866, December.
    10. Colette Depeyre & Hervé Dumez, 2007. "Le rôle du client dans les stratégies de coopétition," Post-Print hal-00263322, HAL.
    11. Frédéric Le Roy & Wojciech Czakon, 2016. "Managing coopetition: the missing link between strategy and performance," Post-Print hal-02012534, HAL.
    12. Sascha Albers, 2010. "Configurations of Alliance Governance Systems," Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr), LMU Munich School of Management, vol. 62(3), pages 204-233, July.
    13. Paul Chiambaretto & Anne-Sophie Fernandez, 2016. "The evolution of coopetitive and collaborative alliances in an alliance portfolio: The Air France case," Post-Print hal-02010661, HAL.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ming-Chao Wang & Ja-Shen Chen, 2022. "Driving coopetition strategy to service innovation: the moderating role of coopetition recognition," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 16(5), pages 1471-1501, July.
    2. Frédéric Le Roy & Sea Matilda Bez & Johanna Gast, 2021. "Unpacking the management of Oligo-coopetition strategies in the absence of a moderating third party," Post-Print hal-03349671, HAL.
    3. Alshareef, Leena & Dietlmeier, Simon Frederic & Florian, Urmetzer, 2024. "Coopetition For The Greater Good. Exploratory study of coopetition management mechanisms in the pharmaceutical industry," MPRA Paper 120645, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Youngwook Ko & Yanghon Chung & Hangyeol Seo, 2020. "Coopetition for Sustainable Competitiveness: R&D Collaboration in Perspective of Productivity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(19), pages 1-18, September.
    5. Raza-Ullah, Tatbeeq & Bengtsson, Maria & Gnyawali, Devi R., 2020. "The nature, consequences, and management of emotions in interfirm paradoxical relationships—A conceptual framework," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 36(4).
    6. Fernandez, Anne-Sophie & Chiambaretto, Paul & Chauvet, Mathieu & Engsig, Juliane, 2021. "Why do MNEs both make and coopete for innovation?," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
    7. Patrycja Klimas & Ali Ashraf Ahmadian & Morteza Soltani & Meisam Shahbazi & Ali Hamidizadeh, 2023. "Coopetition, Where Do You Come From? Identification, Categorization, and Configuration of Theoretical Roots of Coopetition," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(1), pages 21582440221, January.
    8. Rouyre, Audrey & Fernandez, Anne-Sophie & Bruyaka, Olga, 2024. "Big problems require large collective actions: Managing multilateral coopetition in strategic innovation networks," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
    9. Chiambaretto, Paul & Massé, David & Mirc, Nicola, 2019. "“All for One and One for All?” - Knowledge broker roles in managing tensions of internal coopetition: The Ubisoft case," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(3), pages 584-600.
    10. Carlos Devece & D. Enrique Ribeiro-Soriano & Daniel Palacios-Marqués, 2019. "Coopetition as the new trend in inter-firm alliances: literature review and research patterns," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 13(2), pages 207-226, April.
    11. Wojciech Czakon & Karolina Mucha-Kuś & Maciej Sołtysik, 2021. "Coopetitive Platform: Common Benefits in Electricity and Gas Distribution," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-18, November.
    12. Xiaotian Yang, 2022. "Coopetition for innovation in R&D consortia: Moderating roles of size disparity and formal interaction," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 79-102, March.
    13. Mierzejewska Wioletta, 2023. "Does coopetition pay off? Benefits of intra-organizational coopetition within business groups," International Journal of Management and Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of World Economy, vol. 59(2), pages 150-167, June.
    14. Czakon, Wojciech & Niemand, Thomas & Gast, Johanna & Kraus, Sascha & Frühstück, Lisa, 2020. "Designing coopetition for radical innovation: An experimental study of managers' preferences for developing self-driving electric cars," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
    15. Corbo, Leonardo & Kraus, Sascha & Vlačić, Božidar & Dabić, Marina & Caputo, Andrea & Pellegrini, Massimiliano M., 2023. "Coopetition and innovation: A review and research agenda," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 122(C).
    16. Xie, Qiuhao & Gao, Ying & Xia, Nini & Zhang, Shuibo & Tao, Guowu, 2023. "Coopetition and organizational performance outcomes: A meta-analysis of the main and moderator effects," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
    17. Sascha Kraus & Fabian Meier & Thomas Niemand & Ricarda B. Bouncken & Paavo Ritala, 2018. "In search for the ideal coopetition partner: an experimental study," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 1025-1053, October.
    18. Yadav, Neetu & Kumar, Roopesh & Malik, Ashish, 2022. "Global developments in coopetition research: A bibliometric analysis of research articles published between 2010 and 2020," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 495-508.
    19. Julien Granata & Katherine Gundolf & Pierre Marques, 2021. "Managing Paradoxical Tensions in a Coopetitive Context Horizontal Multiple-Firm Coopetition [Gérer les tensions paradoxales dans un contexte coopétitif : la coopétition horizontale multi-entreprise," Post-Print hal-03619371, HAL.
    20. Bagherzadeh, Mehdi & Ghaderi, Mohammad & Fernandez, Anne-Sophie, 2022. "Coopetition for innovation - the more, the better? An empirical study based on preference disaggregation analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 297(2), pages 695-708.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Coopetition; Analysis framework; Configurations; Case study; Multinational companies; Large companies; Small and medium-sized enterprises; Fuzzy sets; Qualitative comparative analysis software;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
    • L24 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Contracting Out; Joint Ventures
    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
    • L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
    • L43 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
    • L44 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Antitrust Policy and Public Enterprise, Nonprofit Institutions, and Professional Organizations
    • N23 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:ijogbc:v:19:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s42943-024-00100-x. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.