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Cooperation management, as a scientific topic, is still not very elaborated yet. There are significant interest, from theory and praxis, to create a model approach, which could be used for building and managing of effective cooperation processes. Main goal of the study is to present actual knowledge about cooperation management conditions in Slovak companies and assign these in order to create a model of key elements, which have an important impact on effective cooperation in corporate praxis. Another important result of the study is recommendations for praxis considering effective cooperation management.

Recently, a number of theoretical and practical expertsbecame interested in cooperation management. The areaof cooperation management is not yet well explored. One of the areas that received more attention is the effort to create a model of successful use of cooperation management in a company in order to ensure its competitiveness. In practice, we may indentify multiple unsuccessful approaches when applying cooperation management. The reasonfor a lack of success is mainly lack of clear plan of activities, division of competencies for implementation and company strategy for establishing and maintaining cooperation. Managers are often the source of such errors, since they often misinterpret the concept of cooperation management and insufficiently utilizits potential in companies.The goal of this paper is to provide a fair image of the use of cooperation management in Slovak enterprises,based on through analysis of theoretical sources in the area of strategic management, cooperation management,marketing and performed research. The paper also aims to transform these results into a proposed model of key aspects that influence the use of cooperation management in companies. Authors used the methods of document analysis, questionnaires and observations, i.e. visit of se lected enterprises, to obtain the necessary data. For examining the data, authors used the methods of induc tion, deduction, synthesis, abstraction and modeling