Contemporary Challenges in Cooperation and Coopetition in the Age of Industry 4.0

Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska is a professor of economics. She manages the Department of Management at the Lodz University of Technology and she is the manager of the management sciences and quality discipline. She specializes in the issues of strategic management in enterprises, especially the high-tech sector, and interorganizational relations, coopetition, cooperation. Iwona Staniec works as an assistant professor at the Department of Management, Lodz University of Technology, Poland. Research interests: data analysis, statistics, econometrics, economic forecasting, risk management, innovation risk, risk analysis and assessment, technological entrepreneurship, creating models and forecasting risk in public and private pension systems and social security.

• Barriers of creating competitive advantage in the age of Industry 4.0: Conclusions from international experience.- Industry 4.0 in Poland: A systematic literature review and future research directions.- “Valleys of death” in creating, commercializing and diffusion of key enabling technologies.- Analysis of ground-breaking technologies and their effect on the functioning of enterprises.- Knowledge sharing and creativity: Individual and organizational perspective.- Organisational culture in the industry 4.0 era: Introduction to research.- Network approach in industry 4.0: Perspective of coopetition.- Interorganizational trust in business relations: Cooperation and coopetition.- From coopetition by cooperation to consolidation. Contemporary challenges of university mergers and acquisitions.- Communication between scientific units and companies in the context of their cooperation.- The risk perceptions as antecedents of opportunism in technological entrepreneurship.- Financial servicescompanies’ abilities to collaborative technology absorption versus their innovativeness.- Proximity: Synthesis, six-dimensional typology and significance for cooperation performance.- The tourism sector’s development and popularization of sharing economy.- The impact on cooperation.- Conflicts in foreign inter-organisational relationships of multinational enterprises.- Dynamics and the dynamism of strategy in interorganizational network: Research project assumptions.- Significance of proactive customer orientation in creating product innovations in cooperation with the consumer.- Revolutionary context of the evolution of a business enterprise.- Understanding cognitive biases in strategic decisions for value creation and capture.- Managing organization development: Identifying research patterns and mapping the research field.- Virtual brand communities as a source of value co-creation.- Chosen aspects of co-creating an employer’s image by employees as prosumers.- Interoperability of manufacturing information systems.- Company involvement in sustainable development. Proposition of a theoretical framework.- Political will: Mechanisms of stakeholder management.