The Behavioural Coopetitor Profile

Description

The Behavioural Coopetitor Profile (Klimas et al., 2025) is designed to measure inter-organizational strategic partnerships between cooperating competitors. The scale comprises 28 items and was developed using a research process that integrated desk and field research, including psychometric analyses. The instrument was evaluated using a sample of respondents from Polish manufacturing companies, and factor analysis, reliability, and validity results were reported for the items.

Purpose

The primary purpose of this questionnaire is to assess the multidimensional behavioral components of the profile of coopetitors.

Validity

Convergent Validity: The level of all standardized factor loadings is greater than 0.5, and all composite reliabilities (CRs) are greater than 0.7 (Bagozzi et al., 1991). In addition, all AVE values are greater than 0.5 (Fornell & Larcker, 1981).
Discriminant Validity: Meanwhile, discriminant validity was confirmed for the five retained variables, as in their case, the AVE square root was greater than the absolute value of the correlations between the variable and another variable.
Test Methodology: Test Validity; Convergent Validity; Discriminant Validity

Reliability

Internal Consistency: Each Cronbach’s alpha of the five variables falls within the tolerance range of 0.7 to 0.95 (the minimum α = 0.857; the maximum α = 0.916), indicating that the scale is reliable (DeVellis & Thorpe, 2021).
Test Methodology: Test Reliability; Internal Consistency

Factor Analysis

Exploratory Factor Analysis: The third and final EFA iteration provided strong evidence of a good fit and construct consistency for the remaining features: competition intensity, conflict, formality, investments, and trust.
Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Absolute quality indices prove the good fit of the model. The values of the relative fit indices also indicate a very good fit of the model to the data. The NFI (normed fit index), the IFI (incremental fit index) and the TLI are well above the minimum value of 0.9. Parsimony fit indices and noncentrality-based indices also met the thresholds.
Test Methodology: Factor Analysis; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Exploratory Factor Analysis

Test Methodology

Test Validity; Convergent Validity; Discriminant Validity; Test Reliability; Internal Consistency; Factor Analysis; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Exploratory Factor Analysis

Population Details

Respondents: Managers
Location: Poland

Age Group

Adulthood (18 yrs & older)

Population Group

Human; Male; Female

Test Type

Original

Instrument Type

Inventory/Questionnaire

Construct

Organizational Coopetitor Behavior

Format

Items are rated on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1-strongly disagree to 7-strongly agree.

Language Available

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Keywords

Cooperating Competitors; Inter-Organizational Strategic Partnerships; Behavioral Components; Coopetitor Profiles; Conflict; Formality; Investments; Trust; Competition Intensity
Index Terms: Collaboration; Competition; Cooperation; Organizational Behavior; Organizational and Occupational Measures

Test Year

2025

Author

Klimas, Patrycja; Sachpazidu, Karina; Stańczyk, Sylwia; Kawa, Arkadiusz; Nadolny, Michał

Author ORCID Identifier

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Affiliation

Klimas, Patrycja: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Department of Advanced Research in Management
Sachpazidu, Karina: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Department of Advanced Research in Management
Stańczyk, Sylwia: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business Department of Organizational Transformation and Improvement
Kawa, Arkadiusz: Poznan University of Economics and Business Department of Business Relationships and International Marketing
Nadolny, Michał: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business

Email

Klimas, Patrycja: [email protected]
Sachpazidu, Karina: [email protected]
Stańczyk, Sylwia: [email protected]
Kawa, Arkadiusz: [email protected]
Nadolny, Michał: [email protected]

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Fee

No

Correspondence Address

Klimas, Patrycja: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Department of Advanced Research in Management, Komandorska 118/120, Wrocław, Poland, 53-345, [email protected]

Reference’s

Klimas, P., Sachpazidu, K., Stańczyk, S., Kawa, A., & Nadolny, M. (2025). The 5-dimensional behavioural coopetitor profile: How to measure it? Industrial Marketing Management, 124, 287–303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2024.12.003

Bagozzi, R. P., Yi, Y., & Singh, S. (1991). On the use of structural equation models in experimental designs: Two extensions. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 8(2), 125-140.

DeVellis, R. F., & Thorpe, C. T. (2021). Scale development: Theory and applications (5th ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Fornell, C., & Larcker, D. F. (1981). Evaluating structural equation models with unobservable variables and measurement error. Journal of Marketing Research, 18(1), 39-50.

Items of the Behavioural Coopetitor Profile

This is a 28-item scale.
Subscales: Conflict; Formality; Competition intensity; Investments; Trust.
Test Items Available: No
Number of items:This is a 28-item scale.
Factors and Subscales:Subscales: Conflict; Formality; Competition intensity; Investments; Trust.