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Please complete the following table for the case study of Monsanto company
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/09/monsanto-continued-selling-pcbs-for-years-despite-knowing-health-risks-archives-
reveal#:~:text=Monsanto%20continued%20to%20produce%20and,in%20a%20vast%20searchable%20archive.

Involved parties (e.g.


the company,
customers, Conflict
Management
government, society, Roles theme/Cooperation Globalization theme Technology theme
implications/perspectives
local authorities, theme
environment, other
stakeholders, etc.

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You may base on the suggestions listed in the following table to complete the above table.

THEME EXTRAPOLATION OF ISSUES FROM STORY CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS (SUGGESTIONS; not


(SUGGESTIONS) exhaustive)
Globalisation  How does the story interact with the global domain?  Theories of globalisation
 Does it impact on the global domain? (e.g. international  Critiques of globalisation
trade, MCCs, policy)  Consequences of globalisation (e.g. inequality & oppression, or
 Or does the global domain impact on it? (e.g. migration, wealth creation and new opportunities in markets?)
trade, inequality, ethics)

Technology and/or  Does the story involve the impact of technology on people  Information society (Castells)
networks and/or organisations? (e.g. automation, AI)  Networks (Sheeky)
 Does the story involve the creation of new opportunities?  Technological development
 Does the story involve degradation, risk and  Labour process (Marx, Braverman etc)
subordination?  Automation
 Who controls the technology and its implementation?  AI
Co-operation  Does the story involve something being contested? (e.g. is  Class politics and struggle (Marx)
and/or conflict one party trying to exploit another, ruin their environment  hegemony
etc.)  Mobilisation, collectivisation
 Does the story involve struggle?  New forms of capitalism (e.g. Mason)
 Does the story involve the opening up of new
opportunities, of groups working together, mobilising,
organising etc)

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