Coopetition: a systematic review, synthesis, and future research directions

Review of Managerial Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 577-601

  Bouncken, Ricarda B ^a   Gast, Johanna ^b   Kraus, Sascha ^c   Bogers, Marcel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cooperation and competition; Coopetition; Interorganizational relationships; State of the art; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930085282     PISSN: 18636683     EISSN: 18636691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11846-015-0168-6     Document Type: Review

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