How to adequately balance between competition and cooperation? A typology of horizontal coopetition

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-289

  Hannachi, Mourad ^a   Coléno, Francois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Case study; Collective actions; Collective strategy; Coopetition; Coordination; Corn; France; GMO; Governance; Grain merchant; Interdependence; Interorganisational relations; Management; Mediation arena; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867803279     PISSN: 14761297     EISSN: 17418054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2012.049577     Document Type: Article

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