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Case Study: Alcan & Alcoa in Iceland
Last modified on 2008-03-07 22:45:24 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Alcan and Alcoa in Iceland is our blog based network intelligence mini-study of the sustainability debate surrounding the aluminum industry’s role in that small country. This study has been featured in the latest online issue of Corporate Knights magazine. I especially like Prof. David Wheeler’s ANT-like approach to corporate structure:
Think of the modern corporation less as a monolithic, fixed structure and more as an entity presiding over a kind of business ecosystem or a set of interlocking ‘value based networks’, where value is defined by the firm and its different stakeholders according to the nature of the relationship”
If one were to map such a stakeholder network in the blogosphere, the network graph would probably look like this (click on the image to access a full-sized version):
