Thomas slides (that may be important)

Question 1

Why does an organisation exist?

Answer 1

To reach principals objectives (profit, survival and/ or others)

Relates to the importans of having:
Ability to change
Legitimacy

Question 2

What are the two approaches to shared value?

Answer 2

Risk minimizing (hygiene)

Innovation (motivation)

Question 3

Three different strategies to incorporate CSR?

According to Thomas

Answer 3

1. Cheap CSR
2. Philanthropy
3. Shared values

Question 4

What is the Platform Economy?

Answer 4

Cost advantages become gigantic, the assets are not equally shared across the value chain

Question 5

What are the two kinds of platform economies? And who has the assets?

Answer 5

Triad platforms
Platform provider (e.g. Alibaba, AirBnB, Uber): gigantic scale, thin asset base

Buyer (e.g. workshop in Europe, consumer): outsourcing, thin assets

Seller (e.g. Chinese manufacturer, estate owner, car owner): scale, thick assets

Dyad platforms (e.g. Voi, Amazon, Ikea)

Providers/sellers: scale and thick assets

Buyers: thin assets

Question 6

What is one of the underlying concepts that should always be met, and what does it mean?

(according to Thomas)

Answer 6

Requisite variety
The organisations should be as complexed as its suroundings (the variation within the company should match the outside variation)