LESSONS FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY: Is Geopolitical 'Coopetition' Possible? | Davos 2024 | World Economic Forum

  

Mar 7, 2024 DAVOS

Companies have long practiced “coopetition”, the strategy in which rivals compete over market share on the one hand, while cooperating on advancing shared interests on the other.

Coopetition or co-opetition is a neologism coined to describe the concept of cooperation between competitors. Coopetition is a portmanteau of cooperation and competition.

Coopetition = a business strategy gained from game theory

What lessons can be drawn from the private sector on how nations that do not always see eye-to-eye can find ways to cooperate on shared priorities?

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What Is Coopetition? Coopetition In A Nutshell

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Coopetition describes a recently modern phenomenon where organizations both compete and cooperate, which is also known as cooperative competition. A recent example is how Netflix streaming platform ...

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Dossier #2: Coopetition

Co-opetition: A Revolution Mindset that Combines Competition and Cooperation  a non-fiction book on coopetition (co-operative competition), business strategy, and game theory by Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff.^[1]The book was initially published by Crown Business on May 1, 1996. As of 2015, the book is still available in its 9th printing.

"At one time or another, everyone wants life to be more rational and scientific. Then we wouldn't have to spend so much late-night time on the phone with friends, playing out scenarios of the possibilities life offers. Corporate executives aren't exempt from this desire. They too spin scenarios, of the bottom-line variety. This must have been the audience Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff had in mind when they wrote Co-opetition, a book about "the game theory strategy that's changing the game of business," as they put it.