Addressing tensions in coopetition for sustainable innovation: Insights from the automotive industry
基于对31位汽车行业专家的访谈，研究了企业在合作竞争中为实现环境可持续创新而产生的紧张关系，识别了企业层面和价值网络层面的四种紧张关系，并分析了其对经济、社会和生态可持续性的影响。
Developing solutions to sustainability challenges requires cooperation among various firms and actors in different industries and sectors (e.g., regulatory authorities, nonprofit organizations). Prior studies investigate sustainability-related coopetition tensions in bilateral relationships; this article instead considers tensions at a broader, value net level and highlights the dark side of business relationships for firms engaged in coopetition. Qualitative analyses, based on interviews with 31 experts from the automotive industry, highlight how innovative efforts to achieve environmental sustainability can generate detrimental environmental and societal impacts. Specifically, the authors identify four sustainable innovation tensions, at the firm level and the value net level. They outline the aggregate economic, social, and ecological sustainability impacts, as well as the critical need for an exhaustive definition of the value net and which factors influence coopetition in sustainability efforts.