Risk Control of Coopetition Relationship: An Exploratory Case Study on Social Networks “Guanxi” in a Chinese Logistics Services Cluster

Yang, Fan; Chai, Yina

doi:10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v06i03/52026

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“…Such complex relationships also create the danger of the emergence of certain disadvantages (e.g. Bengtsson & Kock, 2000;Zineldin 2004;Nieto and Santamaria, 2007;Walley, 2007;Chai & Yang, 2011). However, these disadvantages were analysed at a general level only, without taking into account the nature and scope of the cooperation.…”

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Coopetition Disadvantages: The Case of the High Tech Companies

Cygler

Sroka

2017

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Coopetition (simultaneous cooperation and competition between competitors) is rapidly becoming a key success factor for enterprises operating in the contemporary business world. The literature on coopetition characterizes these relationships mostly in the context of the benefits achieved; however, coopetition is fraught with threats arising mainly from both the coexistence and interaction of streams of cooperation and competition between competitors. Research on a sample of 235 companies operating in the high technology sector (HT) in Poland has shown that there is a number of risks accompanying coopetition. The most common amongst them are the low efficiency of activities and goals pursued (statistically significant for all the activities of the value chain as areas of cooperation). The areas of coopetition that are most exposed to risk are sales and distribution, logistics and finance (nine out of 12 risks analysed). Due to the similarity of the frequency of occurrence of particular threats to coopetition, and using the method of cluster analysis, four groups of value chain areas with similar risks have been identified. The first such group is finance and marketing, the second is sales and production, the third is human resources and logistics, and finally the fourth is information technology, purchasing inputs and R&D. When selecting the area of competitive cooperation corresponding to the individual clusters of the value chain activities, one may expect the occurrence of similar threats to coopetition. The research findings allow interested parties to predict threats to coopetition when choosing specific areas of cooperation and thus an extension to cooperation between competitors which will not increase the quantity of these threats.

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Coopetition Disadvantages: The Case of the High Tech Companies

Cygler

Sroka

2017

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“…Finally, investigating the moderating role of institutional support, this study reveals and enriches institutional contextual factors for effective inter-firm coopetition. Existing studies have investigated various contextual factors in which coopetition affects firm performance, including external environmental factors, such as environmental turbulence (Crick, 2019) and environmental competitiveness and dysfunctional competition (Xu et al , 2021); firm-level factors, such as trust (Yu, 2019) and competitive aggressiveness (Crick, 2020); and institutional/governmental factors (Monticelli et al , 2021; Breznitz, 2009), especially government intervention (Chai and Yang, 2011). As industrial clusters are provided with public resources by governments, cluster firm operations are influenced by the key institutional factor of institutional support.…”

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Inter-firm coopetition and innovation in industrial clusters: the role of institutional support

Xu,

Zhu,

Wang

et al. 2023

JBIM

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Purpose Innovativeness is crucial for industrial cluster firms to gain sustained competitive advantage. This study aims to investigate the effects of inter-firm coopetition on firm innovativeness within a cluster and examines the moderating role of institutional support. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts an empirical survey method using multi-source data from 181 industrial cluster firms. Regression is used to test the hypotheses of this study. Findings The results show that cooperation and constructive conflict promote firm innovativeness, while destructive conflict is detrimental to firm innovativeness. Moreover, the study also finds that cooperation interacts with both types of conflict to affect firm innovativeness, where cooperation and constructive conflict interact negatively on firm innovativeness, while cooperation and destructive conflict interact positively on firm innovativeness. In addition, institutional support weakens the effects of cooperation and destructive conflict on innovativeness, respectively, but has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between constructive conflict and innovativeness. Originality/value These findings enrich the current research on coopetition. The interaction effects of cooperation and both types of conflict on innovativeness deepen the concept of coopetition and responds to the call to further explore the interaction effects within coopetition. The moderating role of institutional support fills a gap in the empirical research on the role of institutional factors affecting coopetition on innovation and also provides valuable suggestions for firm managers and governments in industrial clusters.

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“…Most of China's rural areas are familial settlements, with many relatives in the same village (community) and intensive neighbourhood exchanges, forming a natural social network of shared benefits and risks [66,67]. Individuals in social networks are highly similar [68], and people tend to communicate with people who are similar to themselves.…”

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“…As a result, the frequency of social interaction of resettlers has decreased. Considering that social networks are the main way for resettlers to share risks [67], changes in social frequency will affect the probability of risk. When the PIG is low, the social network fully disseminates information, which helps resettlers share risks and improve SWB.…”

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The Policy Information Gap and Resettlers’ Well-Being: Evidence from the Anti-Poverty Relocation and Resettlement Program in China

Liu

2020

IJERPH

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The widespread dissemination of policy information is necessary for the success of the public policy, but the distribution of information among vulnerable groups has received little attention. We examined a public policy that focuses on the poorest people in China, the anti-poverty relocation and settlement program (ARSP). The infrastructure in the region where the policy is implemented is weak, and the information literacy of resettlers is low. This study analyses the impact of the policy information gap on the subjective well-being of resettlers. We found that the distribution of policy information among the poor is uneven, and the resettlers compare the policy information they obtain with a reference group (working-age people and less-educated people in the same village/community) to generate a policy information gap. The policy information gap indirectly affects subjective well-being by affecting the probability that people will be exposed to risks due to policy. As the policy information gap increases, the subjective well-being of resettlers changes in an inverted U-shape. This impact varies significantly among different groups, policy implementation stages, and resettlement methods. Attention should be paid to the information acquisition ability of the vulnerable groups and the welfare effects of social comparison, and to improve the method of publicizing policy information, which helps to improve the well-being of resettlers.

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Risk Control of Coopetition Relationship: An Exploratory Case Study on Social Networks “Guanxi” in a Chinese Logistics Services Cluster

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Coopetition Disadvantages: The Case of the High Tech Companies

Coopetition Disadvantages: The Case of the High Tech Companies

Inter-firm coopetition and innovation in industrial clusters: the role of institutional support

The Policy Information Gap and Resettlers’ Well-Being: Evidence from the Anti-Poverty Relocation and Resettlement Program in China

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