Coopetition as Support Strategy for Supply Chain Risk Management

• Autor(a) principal: Camargo Junior, João Batista de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Vitorino Filho, Valdir Antonio, Ignacio Pires, Silvio Roberto, Neto, Mário Sacomano
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero Americana de Estratégia - RIAE
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/riae/article/view/15205
• topic: Risk Management; Supply Chain Risk Management; Coopetition.; Estratégia de Organizações - Gestão da Cadeia de Suprimentos; Gestão de Riscos, Gestão de Riscos na Cadeia de Suprimentos, Coopetição

As supply chain management research and its adoption advance, new challenges are imposed for researchers and managers. Accordingly, the supply chain risk management (SCRM) has been a prominent field because it suggests strategies and action plans to mitigate these risks. On the other hand, it is observed that the coopetition concept advocates that two competing organizations can work together in some activities in the form of a strategic alliance, contributing to achieve maximum efficiency. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose the extension of this concept into the activities of SCRM, treating coopetition as an action that can be added to the risk management efforts in order to make supply chains more resilient. Thus, through an exploratory literature search that uses secondary data, we drawn two propositions that deal with the possibility of adding a coopetitor to reduce risks in supply chains and on the feasibility of balanced coopetition changes the profile of a supply chain to a resilient model. Although these propositions require further empirical verification, it is believed that this is a good start for discussions about the benefits and competitive advantages that the adoption of coopetition in risk management activities in supply chains can bring to organizations.