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Dynamic Capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing Internal Co-opetition
Song, Jaeyong , Kyungmook Lee, and Tarun Khanna
58/4  (Summer 2016): 118-140

This article presents a clinical study, based on a decade of ongoing research at Samsung Group, that describes how the Samsung Group and its mobile phone division competed successfully in smartphones. The ability to manage co-opetition - simultaneous forces of competition and cooperation within the business group - is a particular dimension of dynamic capability that has stood Samsung in excellent stead. Relying on internal exhortations to cooperate often leads to a lack of dynamism, whereas untrammeled competition leaves proverbial synergies entirely untapped and spawns duplicative investments. Samsung, however, has succeeded by its ability to strike a balance between the two.

 

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