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Cooperative Strategies 2025 Annual Business Meeting

September 18, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT

Navigating the AI Era: Ecosystems, Partnerships & Analytics — A Candid Dialogue

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 12:30pm ET

From Corporate Allies to World Cup Rivals? How Competing External Organizations Hinder Employee Collaboration

For managers, the findings suggest that employees outside affiliations with competing organizations can pose challenges to collaboration. By understanding and managing these dynamics, managers can help employees work together more effectively and maintain strong internal collaboration.

SMS 44th Annual Conference Istanbul

Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences

closeup of large ships with factory in background emitting smoke

What Fuels Reluctance on Climate Change Action?

This is an excerpted transcript of an SMS webinar on “Alliances in Sustainable Development & Environment Preservation” hosted by the SMS Cooperative Strategies Interest Group. It has been edited for…

What is the Contribution of the Alliance Network to Firm Profitability?

Recent work in the Strategic Management Journal coauthored by Pankaj Kumar, Xiaojin (Jim) Liu, and Akbar (Aks) Zaheer, helps add fresh insights into the sources of variation in firm profitability.…

Income or Education? Community-level Antecedents of Firms’ Category-spanning Activities

A new study in the Strategic Management Journal written by Heewon Chae helps shed light on how the COVID-19 crisis influences retail firms’ business portfolio and product offerings. In this…

The Evolution of Cooperation in the Face of Conflict

Firms in innovation-driven industries cooperate to develop interoperability standards and compatible technologies. Yet, cooperative firms may disagree about what constitutes fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms for licensing intellectual property. Thus,…

Aaron Chatterji & Kira Fabrizio – User innovation (SMJ 2013 & 2014)

Surrendering Control to Gain Advantage

Conventional wisdom holds that firms must control scarce and valuable resources to obtain competitive advantage. That being said, over the past decade, many firms—among them Computer Associates, IBM, and Nokia—embarked…

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