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

Elemica provides a community for participants where they can transact, coordinate, and coopertae to produce products for less. Yet these firms also compete with one another when they sell chemicals to end users firms in the automobile, airline and manufacturing industires. How is this possible?

Review the concept of private industrial networks and describe how Elemica illustrates many of the features of such a network. In what ways is it different from a private industrial network?