sönmez, rukiye çanakkale onsekiz mart üniversitesi, turkey

COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR OF COMPANIES IN A COMPETITIVE COMPETITION NETWORK

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This article aims to address the effect of firms’ competitive behavior in co-opetition network in which engaged their competitors, focused on simultaneous cooperation and competition. It is, however, important to examine because little research has addressed the phenomenon of co-opetition and the phenomenon in practice is on the rise while research has demonstrated in cooperative network. Co-opetition had been firstly classified according to their intensity as intensity of cooperation and intensity of competition to reflect firms’ competitive behavior. Based on intensity of this relationship, characteristic of co-opetition network structure and firms’ competitive behavior have discussed. Finally, it can be said that intensity of competition is the higher in co-opetition relationship even though firms have engaged in cooperation with competitors.

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Co , opetition , Competitive Behavior , Social Network Theory

The Journal Of Marmara Social Research

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