Cooperative strategy is the attempt by organizations to realize their objectives through cooperation rather than in competition with them, focusing on the benefits of cooperation. I used Cooperative Strategy in preparing for my book chapter on risks in virtual enterprise networks, where two chapters in this book were particularly useful: Networks (Chapter 8) and Virtual Corporations (Chapter 9). My review focuses on these two chapters. I did browse the other chapters in the book, although I did not read them as intensively as chapter 8 and 9, which obviously were the chapters I read most.

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