Accidental Adversaries: The Enigma of Sustained Cooperation

Christoph E. Mandl ()
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Christoph E. Mandl: University of Vienna

Chapter Chapter 11 in Managing Complexity in Social Systems, 2023, pp 121-126 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Start-upsStart-ups are particularly prone to existential crises. Between 40 and 90% of them fail within the first 3 years. One of the reasons is the breakdown of cooperationCooperation among founders. The peculiarity of start-ups, particularly high-tech start-ups, is that they are rarely founded by one person alone. These companies require so much knowledge that it is very difficult for just one person to know it all. Such start-ups begin with a close bond among their founders. Yet these bonds somehow break, cooperation turns into competition, and former partners become adversaries – by accident as no one sought it. Accidental AdversariesAdversaries is a tameSystems archetype systems archetypeArchetype. Yet coping with it requires understanding its dynamicsDynamics and superrational behavior of the people involved.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30222-0_11

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