Research trends and hotspot topics of Coopetition Strategy: A Scientometric Analysis

Research on Coopetition Strategy has gained increasing attention as a strategy in the last two decades but it’s still in need of further studies. This paper provides a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the development of coopetition over time and the current state of literature in this research area. Using multiple bibliometric instruments such as performance analysis, co-occurrence analysis, co-citation analysis and timeline view analysis, we examine 919 articles from Web of Science between 1996 and 2022. We establish a classification of the most influential publications, authors, institutions and countries. Also, we provide an analysis of the most important clusters and identify key themes of coopetition research. The results show 5 important clusters in this subject. Then, we propose potential future directions and research streams to study coopetition in the upcoming works.