From a strategic point of view, this means that R&D activities, such as software development, are best suited to be developed in cooperation with a competitor, but when it comes to marketing a new product, competitors choose to distinguish the products from each other.
The comment came from Emirates president Tim Clark, who said in an interview with Reuters that the airline is open to cooperation with local competitor Etihad Airways.
Indeed, as we shall see presently, cooperation with one's competitors appears to be an unofficial goal of competition.
Based on a sample of 1800 German manufacturing enterprises, we analyze the propensity to maintain different forms of R&D cooperation with customers, suppliers, competitors and public research institutions.
They advocated simple policy rules, such as capping prices for monopolists and prohibiting cooperation between competitors, while permitting cooperation between firms with different positions in the value chain.
This is a case of tacit cooperation between competitors.
This episode represents a pure form of psychological warfare and tacit cooperation between competitors.
The attitude which it takes in antitrust administration essentially constitutes a demand for tacit cooperation between competitors even though explicit cooperation is prohibited by law.
