The Macro-environment The macro-environment includes concepts such as demography‚ economy‚ natural forces‚ technology‚ politics‚ and culture. Demography refers to studying human populations in terms of size‚ density‚ location‚ age‚ gender‚ race‚ and occupation. This helps to divide the population into market segments which can be beneficial to a marketer in deciding how to tailor their marketing plan to attract that demographic. The economic environment refers to the purchasing power of
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THE MACRO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF MICRO-ECONOMIC MARKET FAILURES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS – THE CASE OF SA. Nicola Theron ECONEX www.econex.co.za Department of Economics University of Stellenbosch nmb@sun.ac.za 1. INTRODUCTION This paper will examine the micro-economic market failures and the rationale for regulation in the South African telecommunications sector. The role of telecommunications in economic growth will be emphasized by analysing the effect that the micro-economic market failures
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Inequalities of social class‚ race‚ and ethnicity and gender effects the life chances on the macro and micro level. Inequalities that are inherited to the American way of life have caused enormous pain and suffering along with the social class‚ race and gender. People have been abused and held back from living and achieving life potential. It is sadly ironic that a country that was founded on liberty and freedom and would be so mired in the sludge of racism and bigotry. This sad condition
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States Health System Strengths Professor Rodriguez Introduction For-profit hospitals provide a service to make a profit which is returned first to organizations and then to their shareholders. Non-profit hospitals exist first to provide a service and second to accumulate assets which are returned to the hospital ’s community in the form of additional services (Consumers Union‚ 1998). Johns Hopkins Hospital is non-profit healthcare organization that provides many service to the Baltimore community
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PART I INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS Demand‚ Supply‚ and Market Equilibrium 3 © 2009 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Principles of Macroeconomics 9e by Case‚ Fair and Oster PART I INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS CHAPTER 3 Demand‚ Supply‚ and Market Equilibrium Demand‚ Supply‚ and Market Equilibrium 3 CHAPTER OUTLINE Firms and Households: The Basic Decision-Making Units Input Markets and Output Markets: The Circular Flow Demand in Product/Output Markets Changes
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sound business decisions requires knowing the economic environment in which firms operate. It requires an understanding of key economic indicators‚ the relationship among economic variables‚ the mechanics of how the economy works as a whole‚ and the role of economic institutions. The topics we cover in this intermediate course in macroeconomics will help you understand how economies function‚ both in the national and international contexts. Economics is one of the foundations for other functional
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of value creation and measurement. Economic Value Added (EVA) plays the main role in this management approach‚ as a very effective performance metric in the alignment of the organization with its ultimate goal of shareholder’s value creation. VIEW OF THE READING In the first paper “Accounting is Broken. Here’s How to fix it. A Radical Manifiesto”‚ the accounting related aspects of EVA are discussed‚ providing a comparison between accounting earnings and economic earnings. Weaknesses of accounting
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Both not for profit and for profit companies have many similarity and differences. A lot of companies start with the intent of making a profit. These companies also pay taxes and are called profit or for profit companies (Rodwell‚ & Teo‚ 2013). Other companies‚ while they can make a profit begin with the intent of helping others. These companies are not for profit or non-profit organizations. Nonprofit organizations are not allowed to make a profit‚ and do not pay taxes‚ but they might generate
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Profit Maximization Marginal revenue is the change in revenue which comes from the sale of an additional unit of output. The relationship with total revenue is that total revenue is used in the formula to calculate marginal revenue. A company can calculate marginal revenue by dividing the change in total revenue with the change in output quantity. Because of demand‚ as production quantity increases the revenue per unit will decrease. On the other hand‚ marginal cost is the change in the total
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Special Features of marketing theory 6. Which is better? Why? 1. micromarketing Micro refers to the marketing activities of individual units‚ normally individual organizations (firms) and consumers or households. (Hunt‚ 1976) 2. macromarketing Macro suggests a higher level of aggregation‚ usually marketing systems or group of consumers. (Hunt‚ 1976) “---Macromarketing should connote an aspect of marketing which is ‘larger’ than what is otherwise considered” Bartels and Jenkins (1977) argue
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