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COMPANY INVIDIA : https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/
First Theoretical Approach – 350 words
Exhibit 3.1: Industrial organization external appraisal questions
• Which ecosystem is the firm competing in?
• Are there any cooperative arrangements that the firm has to engage in, and if so, how do these arrangements shape how the firm can compete?
• Who are direct rivals to the firm?
• How many are there?
• What do their value chains look like?
• This tells us about the strength of the rivalry force
• Who are suppliers to the firm?
• How many are there?
• What do their value chains look like?
• This tells us about the supplier power force
• Who are buyers from the firm?
• How many are there?
• What do their value chains look like?
• This tells us about the buyer power force
• Who are complementors to the firm?
• How many are there?
• What do their value chains look like?
• This tells us about the complementor power force
• Who offer substitute products?
• How many are there?
• What does their value chain look like?
• This tells us about the threat from substitutes
• How easy is it to set up a similar business?
• What would their value chains look like?
• This tells us about the threat of entry
• (Consider mobility barriers between strategic groups)
Stakeholder Approach and Organizational Politics – 350 words
Exhibit 6.1: Macro-politics Starter Questions
• What conflict of interests is manifesting itself?
• Which stakeholders are appearing in this conflict?
• What coalitions have formed around this conflict?
• What pragmatic, cognitive, and moral claims on and expectations of the organization do the stakeholders have?
• In what way is the organization dependent on each external stakeholder and have these dependencies banded together in various coalitions?
• This provides an overview of relevant external stakeholders, stakeholder coalitions, and the interdependence between them and the focal organization.
• What is the cognitive, moral and pragmatic legitimacy of a external stakeholder’s claim?
• What is the powerbase of this external stakeholder and how does this balance out against the power of the focal firm?
• How urgently should this external stakeholder be dealt with?
• In what way is membership of a stakeholder coalition affect the position of a specific stakeholder?
• This provides the information to assess what type of external stakeholder the organization is dealing with and therefore what the stakeholder’s relative importance is.
• Has the organization prioritized the (external) stakeholders in accordance with the relative importance of each one?
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