How Coopetition Affects Knowledge Recombinant Capabilities: Toward a Network Perspective

Focusing on the direct ties between coopetitors (i.e., direct coopetition network), the extant coopetition research ignores the potential impact of a firm’s indirect connections with other competitors from the same industry via its coopetitors (i.e., indirect coopetition network). We advance coopetition research by comparing the impacts of direct and indirect coopetition networks on a focal firm’s knowledge recombinant capabilities. Moreover, we...