University of Montpellier South of France
Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Catania, Italy
Fourteen years after its conventional birth in 1996, the concept of Coopetition has crossed the threshold of its adolescence. Accordingly, while coopetition is dwelling a phase of accelerated growth in terms of publication stream, at the same time it seems to have reached adequate vigour to confront and intermingle other relevant management concepts. In our view, this kind of intersection is expected to be very fertile, on the one hand, in enriching the actual coopetition theorization body and, on the other, in supplementing other more conventional perspectives in strategic management, technology and organization management, and business history. For this reason, the Fourth EIASM Workshop on Coopetition Strategy, that will be held in Montpellier, France, on June 17 and 18, 2010, is focused on the relationships between coopetition and innovation.
Intersecting coopetition and innovation is expected to reveal a particularly intriguing research challenge for scholars and researchers as we consider innovation as a privileged management investigation domain in which the firm could reach efficiency only if it rightly interacts with other firms, and in which it is irremediably fated if it decides to work in isolation. Several examples outspreading from actual managerial practice show that, in order to innovate, a firm must cooperate not only with its usual partners (e.g., clients and suppliers) but also, and perhaps more importantly, with its competitors (both current and potential). We regard the term innovation in a broader sense as technological, organizational and strategic innovation. The link between coopetition and innovation concerns firms of large and small sizes, established or new-to-the-world, operating practically in all sectors of economic activity.
Following the preceding successful experiences of venues in Catania (2004), Milan’s SDA Bocconi (2006) and Madrid’s Carlos III (2008), this is the fourth biannual workshop that EIASM dedicates to the scrutiny coopetition strategies. In addition, EURAM tracks on Coopetition have been held on the occasion of the Annual EURAM Conferences in Stockholm (2002) and in Paris (2007), making this one as the sixth gathering in a row devoted to coopetition in Europe. Earlier settings have involved about 200 people.
In our role of coopetition workshop conveners, we have high hopes for the current advancement of coopetition theory and practice as we expect that the quality and the quantity of the submissions that will be forwarded for this workshop may be consistent with the premises collectively laid heretofore.
Please click HERE to download the list of accepted papers.
Please click HERE to download the workshop main Programme The parallel sessions programme will be available soon.
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