Coopetition for sustainability: Between organizational benefit and societal good

Autor: Siarhei Manzhynski, Frank Figge
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Business Strategy and the Environment. 29:827-837
ISSN: 1099-0836
0964-4733
DOI: 10.1002/bse.2400
Popis: Sustainable development requires coopetition, that is, the cooperation of organiza-tions that compete at the same time. Research on coopetition for sustainability issparse. From a sustainability perspective, coopetition contributes to sustainabilitywhen it makes a positive contribution on the societal level. Existing research oncoopetition however focuses on organizational outcomes. In this paper, we link orga-nizational and societal outcomes of coopetition. We show that for the simple case oftwo coopting firms and an economic and an environmental dimension, there are 51different combinations that make a positive contribution to sustainability. All butone of these combinations consist of a mix of positive and negative outcomes. Weidentify four types of trade‐offs that can occur in coopetition for sustainability andthat point to different pathways of achieving sustainability.
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