Market competition and cooperation: identifying competitive/cooperative interaction groups
by C. Carl Pegels, Yong I. Song
International Journal of Services Technology and Management (IJSTM), Vol. 8, No. 2/3, 2007

Abstract: Intra-industry group formation has largely focused on strategic group formation, and has been based on similarity of strategic resource and scope commitments, and on the basis of mobility barriers. In this paper we present a study where competitive/cooperative interaction group identification is based on the patterns of tactical and strategic interactions as found in market competition and cooperation. We posit that patterns of competitive and cooperative interactions among firms provide in-depth information on the configuration of the inter-dependence interaction patterns in an industry. The interaction patterns are mapped onto competitive/cooperative interaction groups using a strategic interaction (action-response) matrix. Clustering techniques are used to partition the firms in the industry into groups, which maximally interact with each other. The partitioning technique was applied to the airline industry resulting in four competitive/cooperative interaction groups. The largest of the four competitive/cooperative interaction group was sub-divided into four clusters of firms exhibiting similar interaction patterns.

Online publication date: Mon, 19-Mar-2007

The full text of this article is only available to individual subscribers or to users at subscribing institutions.

 
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.

Pay per view:
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.

Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Services Technology and Management (IJSTM):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:

Username:        Password:          Forgotten your password?

Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.

If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com