Coopetition
= cooperating with your competitors
=History-
David Ronfeldt reviews the strands of management literature on the topic:
"* The earliest expression I’ve found is to "cooperative competition" (Golden, 1993).
- Later came the similar notion of "co-opetition" as fielded by two business-oriented game theorists (Brandenburger & Nalebuff, 1996).
- Network governance specialists have identified “competitor-partner networks” as a factor in “government by network” (Goldsmith and Eggers, 2004).
- Economic sociologists using network analysis talk about finding “multiple forms of cooperation and competition” in new business sectors (Smith-Doerr & Powell, 2005).
- Organizational theorists keep referring to commensalism, symbiosis, and mutualism as areas in the spectrum of relations that run from competition to cooperation (e.g., Aldrich, 2006; Monge et al., 2008)."
(http://twotheories.blogspot.com/2008/12/strategic-multiplexity-another-trait-of.html)
More Information
- "Strategic Multiplexity"