Coopetition in the platform economy from ethical and firm performance perspectives

Sheshadri Chatterjee, Ranjan Chaudhuri, Patrick Mikalef, David Sarpong

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Abstract

The platform economy facilitates a model of sharing economy, where competition and cooperation among the competitive firms are very common. Nevertheless, there are very few studies to date which investigate how competition and cooperation influence firms’ ethical dilemmas, and how these in turn affect performance outcomes. As such, there is a lack of understanding of the outcomes of platform-based sharing economy from conflict management and firm performance perspectives. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the coopetition in platform economy from ethical and firm performance perspectives. Building on literature from the relational view and resource-based view, we perform an empirical analysis on a dataset of 328 Indian platform-based firms. The study finds that there is a significant impact of coopetition in platform-based sharing economy which creates conflicts and increases the firms’ ethical dilemma that eventually decreases the performance of firms.

Original languageEnglish
Article number113576
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Business Research
Volume157
Early online date27 Dec 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2023

Bibliographical note

Copyright © 2022, The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Keywords

  • Competition
  • Conflict
  • Cooperation
  • Ethical dilemma
  • Firm performance
  • Platform economy

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