1. Discuss the role that environmental constraints and opportunities may have played in the creation and fall of Saturn. What contributed to its inception and its end?

2. Apply the concepts of environmental uncertainty, resource dependence, and strategy to the Saturn case. To what extent does the strategy correspond to the constraints and opportunities of the environment?

3. Consider the relationship between the strategy and structure of the Saturn plant. What came first and how and why is the structure different from the rest of GM?

4. What strategic responses were used by Saturn to try to cope with environmental uncertainty? What other strategic responses might have been considered?

5. What does the story of Saturn teach us about the linkages between environment, strategy, and structure? What lessons can be learned from the Saturn experiment?