Co-opetitive entrepreneurship: how to integrate competition in a co-operative context ? An empirical study of sami reindeer herders

Emprendimiento coopetitivo. ¿ Cómo generar un ambiente competitive en un contexto cooperativo ? Una investigación sobre los pastores sami de renos

Leo Dana and Gilles Guieu ()
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Gilles Guieu: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université

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Abstract: Almost all research about co-opetition examines the emergence of co-operation in a competitive environment. Can competition emerge from a co-operative context ? While there is growing literature about indigenous entrepreneurship, this article focuses on competitive relationships among Sami people – the indigenous nation of northern Norway, Sweden and Finland and Russia's Kola Peninsula. Reindeer herding, an activity traditionally done as a family, holds strong social value. Our ethnographic study reveals that maximisation of profits is not a sufficient explanatory variable to explain traditional reindeer herding. With limited economic returns from herding, many Sami herders rely on secondary occupations for supplementary income. To manage the resulting co-opetitive relationships, entrepreneurs compartmentalise co-operative relationships based on cultural and territorial issues, and competitive relationships based on economic considerations. Implications in terms of co-opetition and entrepreneurship are drawn.

Keywords: Co-opetition; Indigenous entrepreneurship; Reindeer husbandry; Coopetición; Emprendimiento indígena; Sami; Pastoreo de renos; Coopétition; Entrepreneuriat indigène; Sames; Élevage de rennes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Revue Internationale PME, 2014, 27 (3-4), ⟨10.7202/1028045ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1028045ar

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