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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
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Received: 2022-07-15  |  Accepted: 2022-12-06  |  Published: 2022-12-30

Title

Sustainable cooperation management - insights from a selected company


Abstract

The issue of cooperation is one of the fundamental elements of the human and biological nature of the world. It creates new connections, strengthens, and repeats the current ones, and defines the conditions for the functioning, remuneration and punishment of individual participants in the cooperation environment. Cooperation management is one of the basic approaches to well-sustained and functioning relationships in a business environment where competitiveness and sustainability in a given environment represent an increase in benefits, fitness in a relationship and other activities beneficial to the partnership. This article aims to point out significant theoretical and practical starting points considering the sustainability of cooperation activities. Within the article's content, a comprehensive content analysis is elaborated, analysing the theoretical concepts of individual elements of cooperation. The essential part of the article also identifies practical starting points from the study of cooperation in the selected company. During the discussion, several recommendations are developed for creating sustainable cooperation management. One of the presented results is the application of a "win-win" strategy, in which the partners agree on the mutual ratio of costs and distribution of revenues within the joint activity.


Keywords

cooperation elements, cooperation management, strategic management, sustainable business, effective cooperation


JEL classifications

C70 , J50 , P13


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1035


DOI


Pages

429-447


Funding

This research was funded by Slovak Republic scientific grant VEGA: 1/0533/20

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Holubčík, Martin
University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia https://www.uniza.sk
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Soviar, Jakub
University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia https://www.uniza.sk
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Lendel, Viliam
University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia https://www.uniza.sk
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

10


Number

2


Issue date

December 2022


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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