International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

Vladimir Vanyushyn (), Maria Bengtsson (), Malin H. Näsholm () and Håkan Boter ()
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Vladimir Vanyushyn: Umeå University
Maria Bengtsson: Umeå University
Malin H. Näsholm: Umeå University
Håkan Boter: Umeå University

Review of Managerial Science, 2018, vol. 12, issue 2, No 8, 535-557

Abstract: Abstract International coopetition has rarely been studied in relation to innovation. Further exploration of effects of international coopetition, i.e. the pursuit of simultaneous cooperation and competition, on a firm’s innovation performance is especially important as such a relationship is challenging with a high propensity to fail. This observation formed the point of departure for this study, which aims to increase the understanding of the effects of international coopetition on firm innovativeness and how these effects are conditioned on the magnitude of the organizational adjustments a firm introduces. We use an unbalanced panel of 9839 firms that participated in four waves of the Swedish Community Innovation Survey between 2008 and 2014 as our empirical base. We illustrate that firms that cooperate with competitors internationally are more likely to exhibit higher propensity to introduce radical innovations, yet this effect is conditioned upon the magnitude of organizational adjustments. Overall, our study contributes to the understanding of the implications of international coopetition and what a firm needs to benefit from it.

Keywords: Innovation; Coopetition; International coopetition; Radical innovation; Incremental innovation; Organizational innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 L14 M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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