Read the case study: Elemica: Cooperation, Collaboration, and Community $($page $754)$ at the end of chapter $12.$

If you were a small chemical company, what concerns would you have about joining Elemica?

Elemica provides a community for participants where they can transact, coordinate, and cooperate to produce products for less. Yet these firms also compete with one another when they sell their products to end$-$user firms. How is this possible?

How did the purchase of Elemica by first Thoma Bravo and then Eurazeo Capital change how Elemica fits into the B$2$B framework $(4$ types of B$2$B$,$ e$.$g$.,$ e$-$distributor, Independent exchangers, e$-$procurement and industry consortia$)?$