Organizing coopetition for innovation: The case of wireless telecommunication sector in Europe

International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

“…Furthermore, the choice of how many firms to coopete with and the distance to these firms seem to have different effects depending on the objectives of innovation-related coopetition. Yami and Nemeh (2014) suggested that dyadic coopetition is more suitable for incremental improvements and that coopetition with multiple partners is appropriate when the motives are to obtain radical technological development. Ritala and Hurmelinna-Laukkanen (2013) suggested that for radical and incremental innovations, a different emphasis is needed, in terms of knowledge sharing and knowledge protection, for firms to benefit from coopetition.…”

“…Although many empirical studies of coopetition for innovation are conducted in an international context (Gnyawali and Park 2011;Park et al 2014;Quintana-Garcia and Benavides-Velasco 2004;Yami and Nemeh 2014), few studies explore the link between international coopetition and innovation. The assumed importance of international coopetition can both be explained by the advantages obtained by coopetition (discussed above) and by advantages of international alliances.…”

Organizational culture and coopetition: An exploratory study of the features, models and role in the Polish Aviation Industry

“…similar in terms of organizational features (Moeller, 2010). In coopetition context the partner's appropriateness used to be considered in terms of shared social capital (Tsai, 2002;Yami & Nemeh, 2014), manifested reciprocal trust (Morris et al, 2007;Ritala, Hallikas, & Sissonen, 2008), or multidimensional organizational similarity between cooperating competitors (Chen, 1996). In this way, organizational culture may be an important factor for partners selection, as it shapes social capital (Xiao & Tsui, 2007), interorganizational trust (Nir, Ding, & Chou, 2011), and co-create organization profile (Galbreath, 2005).…”

The relation between coopetition and innovation/entrepreneurship

“…The relation between coopetition and… Accordingly, some studies have begun to link coopetition to innovation (Ritala 2012;Bouncken and Fredrich 2012;Ritala and Sainio 2014;West and Bogers 2014;Yami and Nemeh 2014;Bouncken et al 2016). As innovation becomes further rooted in the organization's capacity to access external knowledge sources, coopetition increasingly shares a positive relationship with innovation, which offers a mechanism for organizational learning (Bengtsson and Kock 2000;Mas-Tur and Soriano 2014).…”

“…Scholars have shown that coopetition can contribute to different types of innovation: incremental and radical innovation (Bouncken and Fredrich 2012;Yami and Nemeh 2014), open innovation (Enkel et al 2009;Chesbrough and Bogers 2014), and technological innovation (Ritala and Sainio 2014). Bengtsson and Kock (2000) and Osarenkhoe (2010) have found that cooperation is more important during the early phases of the innovation process, whereas competition is more important in the latter stages, namely when the firm has launched the product.…”