Title :
Strategic Alliance via Co-Opetition: Supply Chain Partnership with a Competitor
Author :
Zhang, Jie ; Frazier, Gerg
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
This paper conducts a formal analysis of the incentive and potential cost of the cooperation between competing firms with different goals by negotiating a contract agreement. We use a game-theoretical model to study the impact of co-opetition activities on market competitiveness and the economic incentives for starting.
Keywords :
game theory; organisational aspects; supply chain management; competing firms; contract agreement; coopetition activities; economic incentives; game-theoretical model; market competitiveness; strategic alliance; supply chain partnership; Assembly; Business communication; Contracts; Costs; Customer service; Information technology; International collaboration; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Supply chains; Web page design;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5509-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2010.351
