SUMMARY OF UNDERSTANDING STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 2: The General Environment The external environment facing the organization consists of both: a. A general environment‚ often referred to as the macro-environment because changes that occur here will have an effect that transcends firms and specific industries. b. A competitive environment‚ consists of the industry and markets in which an organization competes. In order to scan and monitor their environment‚ firms require tools of analysis
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UNIT 1 ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS Objectives After studying this unit‚ you should be able to : • Define what you mean by “environment” • Classify the complex environmental variable on the basis of objective criteria • Identify the critical elements of economic environment of business • Analyse the interactions between economic and non-economic environment • Explain the impact of economic environment on business management; and • Illustrate your understanding of economic environment with
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ENVIRONMENT I. Introduction Pakistan and other developing countries around the world are increasingly becoming conscious of the fact that‚ the pursuit of growth and development places a heavy burden on sustainability for now and for the foreseeable future. Development‚ sans environmental aspects is counter productive in sustaining the pace of progress. The Government of Pakistan believes in the creation of opportunities for the present generation without compromising on the potential of
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Introduction Business Environment included the actors and forces outside the organization that influence management’s stability to develop and maintain successful transactions with its target customers and stakeholders. The objective is to establish the importance of analyzing the types of environmental forces. The environmental forces are political-legal forces‚ economic forces‚ socio-cultural forces and technological forces. In other words‚ these forces (PEST) strongly affect the way of business
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The External Environment: Opportunities‚ Threats‚ Competition‚ and Competitor Analysis The external environment affects a firm’s strategic actions. For the example‚ when Philip Morris International (PMI) joint venture with Swedish Match AB‚ PMI distribute smokeless tobacco in multiple global market. A firm’s external environment creates the opportunities (opportunities PMI to enter the smokeless tobacco market) and threats (the regulation in its market reduces the consumption of PMI’s tobacco
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Throughout the 1840’s and 1890’s the natural environment shaped the development of the West beyond the Mississippi like‚ where the best and worst settlement would be in the West‚ how there was a struggle for the expansion that the settlers of the West were pushing for and‚ how aspects like cattle and mining would influence the settlers. There were many environmental changes‚ as well as expansion in the West‚ and the increase in knowledge and development in industries‚ that were occurring‚ and causing
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The Marketing Environment Environmental Variables There are two categories of variables in the marketing environment that shall shape all aspects of a company’s strategic plans: 1. Macro environmental category includes: demographic; economic; social-cultural; competitive; political-legal; and technology variables. 2. Microenvironmental category includes: the company itself; customer served by the company; suppliers; distributors; market intermediaries that assist in making and marketing
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Business Environments The external environment of a business converts inputs into outputs in order to make profits. However‚ the business does not exist in an empty space‚ but rather in an external environment consisting of varying factors outside the business. Factors that affect the external environment of a business include the economic system‚ the social system‚ the political system‚ the technological system‚ and the ecological system. The economic system deals with the organization of the
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The marketing environment of a firm consists of 2 different parts‚ the micro-environment‚ and the macro-environment. The micro environment of a firm is all the actors within a firm which affects its ability to sell final products to its customers. The macro environment‚ are all actor which are potentially harmful‚ and pose a threat towards the firm. The micro environment is affect by 6 actors‚ which are the firm‚ suppliers‚ market intermediaries‚ customers‚ competitors‚ and the public. Within
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Globalization and the Environment • The globalization of environmental affairs takes a number of forms ‚ including: the encounters between previously separated ecological systems from different parts of the planet; the pollution and degradation of the global commons (such as the oceans and the atmosphere); the overspill of the effects of environmental degradation from one state to another (environmental refugees); transboundary pollution and risks (nuclear power‚ acid rain); the transportation
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