Antecedents Of Formation Of Cooprtitive Relationships

coopetition means the simultaneous existence of cooperation and competition between rivals in the particular industry. This strategy has met with great success among companies in the last two decades; Thus the number of published articles in this area has exponentially increased in the recent years. But the lack of a comprehensive framework for the factors influencing the formation of coopetition in the literature of this field is felt. The purpose of this study is to providing a framework for factors influencing on the formation of coopetitive relationship. In this study, systematic review method has been used to integrate and aggregate relevant findings. The systematic review is done in three stages which include planning, implementation and reporting. Each stages include some many different and separate steps.The results show that all the factors affecting the formation of coopetitive relationships fall into the final two categories of Antecedents and motivations. The category of Antecedents includes 4 sub-categories that are: environmental changes, industry conditions, characteristics of rivals and company features.: In fact, Antecedent describe the conditions that can cause and lead to the coopetition relationships. On the other hand, there are some factors that play the role of moving engine in order to shape coopetition relationship. These factors are called motivation of coopetition.