Identification of Major Authors in Coopetition

Abstract

This article aims to identify the main perpetrators in coopetition through two approaches: (a) analyze based on bibliometric study of co-citation producing academic articles available on the ISI web of knowledge on the subject coopetition in 65 articles found in publications between 1996 and 2011, (b) identify the most cited authors by Brazilian researchers on the topic coopetition, and yet, the subjects and objects of study used in 26 research publications between 2004 and 2012. The study is characterized as descriptive and quantitative analysis of the data with the aid of software Stikis® 2.0 and Ucinet® 6.0. The results show that (a) international research had in a growing number of publications, (b) there are no researchers nationally and internationally that stand out with the highest number of publications in the area, (c) have been identified as major authors and their their works in coopetition: Hamel, Doz and Prahalad (1989), Nalebuff and Brandenburger (1996); Lado, Boyd and Hanlon (1997) and Bengtsson and Kock (1999 and 2000).