6TH WORKSHOP ON COOPETITION STRATEGY
COOPETITION STRATEGY AND PRACTICE?
UMEA, SWEDEN, MAY 22-23, 2014
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=988
CHAIRPERSONS
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
BACKGROUND
WORKSHOP THEME
CALL FOR PAPERS
THURSDAY MAY 22: DOCTORAL TUTORIAL
PRACTICALITIES
CHAIRPERSONS
Wojciech Czakon, University of Katowice, Poland
Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Catania, Italy
Frédéric Le Roy, University of Montpellier and GSCM-Montpellier
Business School, France
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Maria Bengtsson, Umeå University
Håkan Boter, Umeå University
Sören Kock, Hanken School of Economics
Malin Näsholm, Umeå School of Business and Economics
Paavo Ritala, Lappeenranta University of Technology
BACKGROUND
We welcome you to participate in the upcoming 6h EIASM Workshop on
Coopetition Strategy that will be held in Umeå, Sweden in May 22-23,
2013. This is the sixth workshop on coopetition and it is arranged by
the Global Coopetition Research Network (GCRN) on coopetition. The
workshop was first held in Catania, Italy in 2004, and celebrates its
tenth anniversary in 2014.
The workshop will in 2014 for the first time arrange a doctoral
workshop giving Ph. D. students the possibility to discuss their
research with other Ph.D. students and distinguished researchers
within the field.
WORKSHOP THEME
Firms increasingly engage in various types of collaborative
relationships in order to create value that can not be achieved by
operating alone. Integrating and leveraging supplementary and
complementary resources with other actors fosters the creation of many
types of collaborative advantages in terms of operational efficiency,
co-marketing, and innovation, (e.g. Das & Teng, 2000). Therefore,
firms need increasingly to take into account their relational context
when formulating their business strategies. It is noteworthy, however,
that the benefits linked to a certain collaborative relationships
are not always completely aligned with the individual, firm-specific
strategic objectives (see e.g., Khanna et al. 1998). This is
especially pinpointed in relationships that involve simultaneous
competition and collaboration, i.e. coopetition (Brandenburger &
Nalebuff, 1996; Bengtsson & Kock, 2000; Gnyawali & Park, 2001). Thus,
firms need to take into account the ?relational strategy? that
maximizes the benefits of the collaborative relationships (Dyer &
Singh, 1998), they also simultaneously need to follow their own
strategic goals in order to remain competitive as an individual
entity. To effectively deal with such contradictions, tensions, and
paradoxes the need for a coopetition strategy is created.
The upcoming workshop aims to increase the understanding of the
aforementioned context in both theory and practice perspectives.
Coopetition strategy is still an emergent construct, although often
mentioned as a relational strategy, a strategic dilemma, or an
emergent strategy (e.g. Dagnino & Padula, 2002; Bentsson et al., 2003;
Mariani, 2007; Chin et al., 2008; Ritala, 2012). In fact,
coopetition studies have contributed much to our understanding on its
conceptual and theoretical nature, but studies showing how
coopetition strategy appears in concrete business practice is still
much absent. As a remedy to this research gap, the main theme of this
workshop is titled "Coopetition strategy and practice".
In putting forward this theme, we especially refer to the recent
discussions on strategy as practice To understand organizational
strategies and capabilities, the importance of approaching strategy as
something which organizational members do, rather than as something
which the organization holds, has been highlighted (Jarzabkowski &
Whittington 2008: 101). Such reasoning acts as a basis in the
strategy-as-practice stream for approaching strategy as a ?pattern in
a stream of goal-directed activity? (Jarzabkowski 2005: 40) which
continuously forms and reforms through social interactions between
actors at multiple organizational levels and in the external
environment (Golsorkhi, Rouleau, Seidl & Vaara 2010: 7; Regnér 2008:
568; Whittington 2006: 621). In view of such notions, the practice
approach has outlined the complexity of strategy and strategizing, as
well as, deviated from a traditional view of strategy as a top-down
stream of managerial decisions. Instead, the simultaneous existence of
multiple and potentially contrasting streams of goal-oriented
activities, favored and maintained differently by actors across the
organization, has been put forth to underlie strategy as a concept
(Jarzabkowski 2005: 64; see also Regnér 2003: 78).
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome contributions discussing coopetition strategy and practice
from multiple perspectives and using different methodologies. We
invite contributions that focus especially, but not exclusively, to
the following themes:
Theoretical and conceptual contributions
-Coopetition as a firm- or relational strategy
-Capability and routine perspectives to coopetition
-Coopetition strategy and innovation
-Business models and coopetition
-Coopetition and knowledge sharing and protection dilemma
-Coopetition as a paradox in strategy and practice: tensions,
ambidexterity, and contradictions
-Coopetition portfolio dynamics: changes in coopetition roles,
partners, and activities
Methodological & empirical contributions
-In-depth methods illustrating coopetition in practice, such as
participatory observation, storytelling, cognitive mapping, and
sensemaking
-In-depth, longitudinal case studies on coopetition showing how
coopetition events and actions unfold over time and space
-Studies utilizing and combining rich sources of often unused data
such as secondary data, databases, and archives
-Quantitative and simulation studies showing how coopetition affects
performance and other strategic or practice ?oriented outcomes of the
firm
Practical & managerial contributions
-Managing coopetition in practice on individual, group and
organizational levels
-Business models as a bridge between coopetition strategy and practice
or coopetition as a business model
-What to share and with whom? and other major issues of coopetition
especially for practitioners
To present a paper, authors should submit a 3-page extended abstract
( all inclusive: tables, references, notes, graphs and so on), single
spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 point font.)
by January 31, 2014
To be acceptable, proposals MUST be submitted only through this web site!!
All submissions must be in English!
THURSDAY MAY 22: DOCTORAL TUTORIAL
This Doctoral Tutorial will take place during the first half day.
The number of participants is limited to 10-12 students so early
application is encouraged.
The workshop provides PhD students with a forum for presenting and
discussing their research and an opportunity to get feedback from and
exchange comments and views with fellow PhD students and to get
feedback on their research from leading senior researchers in the field
All participants are expected to present, discuss, and reflect upon
their work and the work of fellow students and faculty. Sessions will
be based on the material that the students are submitting. Senior
researchers will give their feedback on students? ongoing research.
The material to submit should be linked to their thesis work and can
consist of problem statements, as well as theoretical, methodological
or analytical issues.
PH D Students interested to attend the doctoral tutorial should submit:
* A CV
* A letter of motivation
* A 5 page summary of your dissertation work you want to discuss
before January 31, 2014
No fee is charged for participation in the Doctoral Tutorial. However,
participation and registration in the workshop is compulsory.
PRACTICALITIES
LOCATION
The Workshop will take place in the School of Business and Economics
(USBE) at Umeå university, Sweden
Social Sciences Building
Biblioteksgränd 6
901 87 Umeå
http://www.usbe.umu.se/english/?languageId=1
http://www.usbe.umu.se/english/about/map/
http://www.umu.se/english/umea/getting-to
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Dear All,
As we know that all of you have done research on collaboration among
competitors, i.e. Coopetition, we would be happy if you would like to
submit a paper to our upcoming workshop on coopetition. The workshop
will be held in Umeå, Sweden May 22-23, 2014. A special issue will be
published in Industrial Marketing Management based on submissions of
papers presented at the workshop. The call for paper is available at
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=988
A poster describing the conference is attached with this e-mail and
please feel free to spread the word about the workshop to anyone that
you think might be interested in participating.
Sorry for any cross posting
Maria Bengtsson
on behalf of the Organizing committee
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