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Accidental Adversaries: The Enigma of Sustained Cooperation

In: Managing Complexity in Social Systems

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  • Christoph E. Mandl

    (University of Vienna)

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Start-upsStart-ups are particularly prone to existential crises. Between 40 and 90% of them fail within the first 3 years. One of the reasons is the breakdown of cooperationCooperation among founders. The peculiarity of start-ups, particularly high-tech start-ups, is that they are rarely founded by one person alone. These companies require so much knowledge that it is very difficult for just one person to know it all. Such start-ups begin with a close bond among their founders. Yet these bonds somehow break, cooperation turns into competition, and former partners become adversaries – by accident as no one sought it. Accidental AdversariesAdversaries is a tameSystems archetype systems archetypeArchetype. Yet coping with it requires understanding its dynamicsDynamics and superrational behavior of the people involved.

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  • Christoph E. Mandl, 2023. "Accidental Adversaries: The Enigma of Sustained Cooperation," Management for Professionals, in: Managing Complexity in Social Systems, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 121-126, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-031-30222-0_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30222-0_11
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