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Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder that Strategic Management Journal is organizing a special issue on the interplay of competition and cooperation. The deadline for submissions is November 2, 2015. 

This special issue seeks to promote research on the interplay of competition and cooperation among 

firms. It encourages papers that connect the separate streams of research on competitive strategy and 

cooperative strategy, highlight value creation and appropriation in coopetitive interactions, and 

combine inter- and intra-organizational levels of analysis. This special issue also encourages papers that 

shed light on the coevolution of competition and cooperation, while analysing their consequences or

identifying antecedents and mechanisms that drive their interplay. 

Submitted papers should encompass both elements of competition and cooperation. Studying the 

interplay of competition and cooperation may entail considering how cooperation drives competition 

or vice-versa. Alternatively, submissions may examine how competition and cooperation jointly drive 

organizational outcomes. We further encourage papers that underscore the trade-offs and tension 

between competition and cooperation. We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers reporting 

either quantitative or qualitative methods that rely on archival data analysis, surveys, case studies, or

experiments, with special interest in longitudinal data, cross-disciplinary research, and multilevel 

approaches

The guest editors are: Werner Hoffmann, Dovev Lavie, Jeffrey J. Reuer, Andrew Shipilov

SMJ Advising Editor: Alfonso Gambardella

More information can be found at:

http://smj.strategicmanagement.net/pdf/SMJ_The_Interplay_of_Comp_and_Coop.pdf