competitive behavior
Striving against others
Competitive behavior is action aimed at outperforming others or securing limited resources.
It ranges from healthy rivalry that motivates improvement to cutthroat tactics that harm opponents: The company's competitive behavior drove innovation across the industry.
In psychology and business, the term often describes patterns of striving for dominance or advantage over rivals.
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
territoriality · rivalry · dog eat dog · playing hardball · assertiveness · winning streak · self-promotion · dominance · alpha male · pecking order · one-upmanship · keeping up with the Joneses · adaptation · tournament · market share · disruptive technology · predation · jealousy
competitive behaviorcooperative behavior
Joint effort among individuals
collaboration · cooperation · teamwork · mutualism · collective action
competitive behaviorpassivity
State of non-resistance
apathy · indifference · complacency · withdrawal · acquiescence
competitive behavioraltruistic behavior
Actions benefiting others freely
selflessness · generosity · self-sacrifice · deference · yielding
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