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Week 1
Hi Anne,
I think you formulated your view on the position clear and the two examples are a positive addition. My only suggestion is that you perhaps could elaborate more on what you called ‘the next step’. Again, I think your three alternatives are clearly explained, but I’m not really convinced of the comparison that is made between a sustainability transition and the labor sector. Perhaps you could give more arguments. Furthermore, I really like your use of pictures.
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Week 2
Hi Hans Peter, In one of your paragraphs of your development on the Friedman position you write that he states that ‘a business that has other interests than just generating profit would not be called a business’ and you agree with Friedman. I think you can elaborate more on this and you don’t explain why you agree with him. Secondly, I think you could begin earlier with you statement you actually wanted to make and maybe shorten the text above it as it can be confusing with so many arguments. As for the other assignment, perhaps you could add your view on what bounded rationality as this will help explain your arguments and statements you make. On a last note, I think your blog posts are well written!
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Hi Marie-Louise, I think you have explained the theory about rational choices and bounded rationality clearly, but perhaps you could elaborate more on explaining the case from the bounded rationality perspective. You gave 6 principles, but I could not find all of them in your explanation. Furthermore, I couldn’t find the second part of the assignment (Write down how materials provided and collected have led you to develop your position on the Friedman-proposition).
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Week 3
I think it is nice to start with explaining the concept of a SES as this made it more clear. I also like your analysis, however you talk about 10 variables Ostrom gives, but I cannot find all 10 of them in the text. Perhaps you could make them more visible by naming and explaining them. Furthermore, I think you have integrated the piece about Friedman very accurately.
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Week 4
I think you gave really nice suggestions in the end that could be easily implemented by Nokia to improve the working conditions. However, I could not find that first bullet point of the
assignment, (analyze how the two key organizations in this case (Nokia and the supplier) are striving for legitimacy). Perhaps you could use the article of DiMaggio and Powell to analyze this.
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I really like your point about the two suppliers who come from different organizational environments and the way you elaborate on this in the following parts. However, to me, it seems like you are convinced that it is impossible to have some western standards implemented in China. Although I strongly agree with the fact that the two organizations have very different cultures and environment, I think that some norms of Nokia could actually be implemented and I believe that the supplier was trying to work on it (for example trying to get contracts for the employees). I’m not sure whether this actually happened or not, but I wouldn’t say it is impossible. Feedback given to http://sairamiroslava.wordpress.com/

Week 5
Hi Nicole,
I am not sure whether you finished your assignment, but first of all, I think you can elaborate on the literature explaining what the concepts are like ‘central actors’. Furthermore, perhaps you could tell more about the non-local actor that are in your network. Lastly, I cannot find part 3 (Make clear how the network you identify constrains and/or enables actors to work towards closing material loops) back in your blog. Hope this helps!
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Hi Francesca,
I think you did a great job in analyzing this regional network. Especially the picture containing all the actors and their role really makes it more clear. Furthermore, I can find all three elements back in your blog so I don’t really have something negative to say about it.
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Week 6
Very interesting conditions you have to add to the fishing game. I do have a few remarks: in the first condition you talk about the 5th round. My question is why you choose the 5th round as sometimes the game already ends after two or third rounds. This additional condition could then not be used and there would be no change or improvement in the game.
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Week 7
I like how you analyzed the boundary conditions and external control to increase the use on LCA. However, the conclusions of all these boundary conditions and external control is more or less that they are not ideal for implementing or/and are not that executable. In the overall conclusion you state that one of the examples you gave could be used for policy. As you also stated that they aren’t that executable, perhaps you could elaborate more on how you would plan to do this or search for other solutions.
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Week 8
I think the game you developed (along with your group) is very interesting and also very executable. I do wonder why you choose the amount of 90 units for a firm to win as you did not explain this in your blog. Furthermore, perhaps you could add some recommendations for further improvement.
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The last part about the car game for me is really clear and the recommendations you made were also helpful. I do suggest that you would also explain how the game about the numbers works as, like the car game, this will helps explaining your feedback.
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Week 9
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Week 10
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Assignment 7

In lecture 4 the concept of Isomorphism is explained, defining it as ‘a set of organizations that, in the aggregate, constitutes a recognized area of institutional life; key suppliers, resource and product consumers, regulatory agencies, and other organizations that produce similar services or products’ (Lecture 4, Boons). It can usually be found in product chains, policy fields or schooling systems. The key finding was that organizations in the same field tend to become more alike over time. This has different underlying causes like coercive pressure, mimicry and normative pressure.

To illustrate this, the movie ‘A Decent Factory’ about the Nokia factory in China was shown in class followed by a discussion in the class and an assignment. Although watching a movie during a lecture is really enjoyable, perhaps another movie could be chosen as even though Nokia is trying to change the values in China according to the ones in Scandinavia, the end suggested that it was not successful in doing this. This could also be part of isomorphism, but perhaps that another example where the change was more successful could illustrate the concept better. This could be done by watching an movie where isomorphism also plays a role, but also shows that the change is introduced and implemented. An assignment could be to find and analyze isomorphism in a product chain, policy field and schooling system that really exist.