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Everything about Hypercompetition
Hypercompetition, a term first coined in business strategy by Richard D'Aveni, describes a dynamic competitive world in which no action or advantage can be sustained for long. Hypercompetition is a key feature of the new global digital economy. Not only is there more competition, there is also tougher and smarter competition. It is a state in which the rate of change in the competitive rules of the game are in such flux that only the most adaptive, fleet, and nimble organizations will survive. Hypercompetitive markets are also characterized by a "quick-strike mentality" to disrupt, neutralize, or moot the competitive advantage of market leaders and important rivals. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: HypercompetitionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Assessing social capital and knowledge sharing in the high-tech industry: a moderating role of hypercompetitionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Innovation, technology, and hypercompetitionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and HypercompetitionCited 584 times
- Go sideways: D'Aveni's 7S frameworkA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Competitor analysisA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An elevated level of competition (between companies or organisms)
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition
Schumpeter's ghost: Is hypercompetition making the best of times shorter?
Hypercompetition in a Multimarket Environment: The Role of Strategic Similarity and Multimarket Contact in Competitive De-Escalation
Institutional development and hypercompetition in emerging economies
Same as it ever was: the search for evidence of increasing hypercompetition
Complementarity‐based hypercompetition in the software industry: Theory and empirical test, 1990–2002
Responding to Hypercompetition: The Structure and Processes of a Regional Learning Network Organization
Coping with hypercompetition: Utilizing the new 7S's framework
🆕 Influential since 2022
Assessing social capital and knowledge sharing in the high-tech industry: a moderating role of hypercompetition
CEO vigilance and hypercompetition: CEO attention in resource utilization and firm competitive aggressiveness
Branding discourses in transnational higher education in the era of hypercompetition: leveraging secondary brand associations
INCUMBENT BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION UNDER MISPERCEIVED HYPERCOMPETITION
The regional and temporal nature of hypercompetition
📚 Books worth reading
Innovation, technology, and hypercompetitionHans-Werner Gottinger · 2006- 📕Innovation Is Everybody's BusinessTucker, Robert B. · 2010
Managing in times of disorderArie Y. Lewin, Richard A. D'Aveni · 1998
Handbook of Research on Sustainable Tourism and Hotel Operations in Global HypercompetitionHakan Sezerel, Bryan Christiansen · 2022- 📕Innovation Engine for GrowthSanjay Mazumdar, Cheryl Perkins · 2021
Hypercompetitive rivalriesRichard A. D'Aveni · 1995- 📕ChallengersSaar Ben-Attar · 2024
The guru guide to the knowledge economyJoseph H. Boyett, Jimmie T. Boyett · 2001
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