Platforms, Communities, and the Shifting of Responsibility – Interview with Business Ethicist Dr. Claudia Gross

Dr. Claudia Gross and BEKM CEO Ben Ecker appeared together as experts on the 3sat program “MAKRO” back in 2022. The program focused on the Lyconet/myWorld complex and the question of how platform and network structures organize or shift responsibility.

Platforms, ecosystems, and community models are increasingly shaping the digital finance and token environment. At the same time, there is a growing number of instances where these terms are used not only descriptively but also strategically – to define responsibilities, create a lack of transparency, and effectively weaken user rights.

Against this backdrop, BE Conflict Management (BEKM) conducted an interview with Dr. Claudia Gross, a business ethicist at Radboud University and the TIAS School for Business & Society. Dr. Gross has been researching platform economies, multi-level marketing systems, and complex, cross-border organizational forms for many years. The discussion was deliberately conducted from an organizational ethics perspective, not a legal one. The following conversation builds upon this discussion.