Cooperation in Steady-State of Intense Competition Conditions

Cooperation in Steady-State of Intense Competition Conditions | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Cooperation in Steady-State of Intense Competition Conditions Kende Kalman This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8679397/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Competition and cooperation have been discussed and subjected to economic and business studies in terms of the behavioral causes and consequences of these strategies chosen solely or in combination by companies in compliance with their interests. Researches have revealed that not only competition but also cooperation is strategically important for individual companies and markets. If discussed in the theoretical frame, high competition conditions may drive the market or some of the companies in the market to reach a steady-state level where investments may become less advantageous, and cooperation models to be applied between the companies in this situation may support them in overcoming this stagnative period. This study aims to analyze the economy and business literature with respect to competition and cooperation followed by coopetition model explanations. The analysis results show that coopetition can be a reasonably foreseeable operational development strategy for production companies in the period when they operate under steady-state market conditions. JEL Codes: F23, C71, D20, C32, C61, M10 Earth and environmental sciences/Environmental social sciences Physical sciences/Mathematics and computing Operations Investments Steady State Cooperation Model Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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