How to swim with sharks? : The antecedents and consequences of coopetition

Coopetition, the phenomenon in which firms are simultaneously involved in cooperation and competition, is intriguing in both theoretical and practical terms. Coopetition scholars have started to study the innovation performance implications of the firms’ coopetition. In this dissertation, we point to some important gaps in the existing coopetition literature, which treated direct coopetitors as the same by ignoring their heterogeneity and...