The Anatomy of Competition

Henderson, Bruce D.

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“…In the literature on competition, Bruce Henderson (1983) produced a list of "rules" that could be used to guide competitive activity. Similarly, there are examples of researchers in the sphere of cooperation (Fehr and Fisch-bacher 2002) who have investigated the motivations for cooperating.…”

Section: Application Of Coopetitive Strategymentioning

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Coopetition: An Introduction to the Subject and an Agenda for Research

Walley

2007

International Studies of Management & Organization

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The traditional view of inter-firm dynamics suggests that relationships are either competitive or cooperative in nature. However, it is apparent that in practice, firms can compete and cooperate with each other at the same time. The term used to refer to a relationship between two firms that simultaneously involves both competition and cooperation is "coopetition." Although there is evidence to suggest that organizations have been involved in coopetitive relationships for some considerable time, it is only relatively recently that the subject has found increased favor in the academic literature. It would appear, however, that the literature concerning coopetition is still limited in scope, and in order to address the issue, this paper presents an agenda for researchers interested in the subject of coopetition. The agenda is generated by reconciling a review of the literature on coopetition with a similar review of the literature relating to competition and cooperation. The agenda also incorporates two innovative ideas based on anecdotal evidence and personal observations. According to Bengtsson and Kock (2003), coopetition is "a situation where competitors simultaneously cooperate and compete with each other." It is 11 Keith Walley is head of the Business Management and Marketing Group, Harper

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Section: Application Of Coopetitive Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Coopetition: An Introduction to the Subject and an Agenda for Research

Walley

2007

International Studies of Management & Organization

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“…The principles of competition are regarded to be universal, whether applied to biological or business competition (Henderson, 1983); as definitions of competition applied in the biological sciences have been known to depict business competition quite accurately. Similar concepts of competition are central to economic as well as ecological modeling (Eldregde, 1997;Nelson and Winter, 2002).…”

Section: Ecological Niche Perspective On Competitionmentioning

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“…in the way they use or consume available resources). The competitive exclusion principle formally states that no two organisms in a single species can occupy precisely the same niche, or exist on exactly the same limiting resources (Grinnell, 1917b;Henderson, 1983). With regard to this, organisms have to specialize, with some commanding a wider range of resources while others specialize in a much narrower array of resources.…”

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“…the supply chain and its operations and interactions with both primary and supporting members) to be the market space within which competition takes place and take supply chains to be the entities that take part in this competition. It then follows that if supply chains within this market place must exist and coexist, these supply chains must be in some kind of equilibrium (Henderson, 1981(Henderson, , 1983). This equilibrium is, however, not one in which all competitors are equally well suited and obtain equal benefits from competing.…”

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Supply chain vs supply chain competition: a niche‐based approach

Antai

2011

Management Research Review

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptualization of supply chain vs supply chain competition using the ecological niche approach. It suggests a probabilistic methodology for evaluating competition from time series data, using overlap in the utilization of services provided by critical providers as a source of competition.Design/methodology/approachLiterature on ecological niche theory and competition is explored and given the uncertainty that surrounds the operation and management of supply chains, a probabilistic approach to the analysis of supply chain vs supply chain competition (via the Bayesian inference) is advocated. Simulated data are used to illustrate the methodology.FindingsShould an area of overlap be identified, ecological niche theory provides a sensible approach to identifying the nature and extent of competition between supply chains. Applicability of the methodology is not limited to supply chain vs supply chain competition.Research limitations/implicationsThe data used for the analysis of competition between supply chains are computer generated and use a single niche dimension. Although this was done to merely test/validate the proposed model, the approach is somewhat oversimplified. However, the model is readily extendable to multiple niche dimensions.Originality/valueThe proposed approach offers a simple and straight‐forward method of estimating competition in general, and supply chains vs supply chain competition in particular. Attempts at using the niche theory of competition in this context are so far inconspicuous. Hence, approaching competition in this way contributes to furthering our understanding of competitive interaction especially in supply chains, whose prospect is yet to be pointed out in literature.

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“…Achrol, 1991;Sood & Tellis, 2005), biological competition (e.g. Henderson, 1983), life-cycle (e.g. Kotler, 1965;Midgley, 1981), and adaptation (e.g.…”

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Re-examining market structures: Resource-Advantage theory and the market offering ecosystem perspective

Arnett

Dass

Bhoumik

2021

Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science

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Understanding market structure is central to firms' success. It helps organizations understand competition and in turn develop strategies to improve performance. The market structure literature is traditionally driven by three schools of thoughts, supply-side competition, demand-side competition, and target market-based competition. However, researchers are developing more intricate models of market structures, which are inspired by the ecosystem concept and are supported by network analysis techniques. In this article, we present new insights regarding market structures based on an ecosystem metaphor approach. In particular, we propose that a market structure can be classified using six ecosystem-based relationships (mutualism, commensalism, neutralism, amensalism, parasitism, and competition), which are based on how the sales of a market offering affects the sales of other offerings in the same ecosystem. Based on these relationships, we examine these relationships in detail and provide proposals for future research.

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The Anatomy of Competition

Cited by 57 publications

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Coopetition: An Introduction to the Subject and an Agenda for Research

Coopetition: An Introduction to the Subject and an Agenda for Research

Supply chain vs supply chain competition: a niche‐based approach

Re-examining market structures: Resource-Advantage theory and the market offering ecosystem perspective

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