Business Environment, 5th edition

By Ian Worthington & Chris Britton
Financial Times / Pearson Education
September 2006
ISBN: 0273704249
560 Pages
$92.50 paper original


By encouraging students to explore the challenges and opportunities managers face in the business environment, this text will provide students with a solid foundation from which to build upon their business knowledge.

Contents

I. INTRODUCTION
1. Business organizations: the internal environment
2. Business organizations: the external environment

II. CONTEXTS
3. The political environment
4. The macroeconomic environment
5. Social, demographic and cultural context of business
6. The resource context (people, technology and natural resources)
7. The legal environment

III. FIRMS
8. Legal structures
9. Size structure of firms
10. Industrial structure
11. Government and business

IV. MARKETS
12. The market business
13. Market structure
14. International markets and globalization
15. Governments and markets

V. ISSUES
16. The technical environment: e-business
17. Corporate responsibility and the environment
18. Monitoring change

Glossary

Features

• Broad and engaging coverage of the environment, provides a solid foundation for students to build upon
• A student friendly text that guides the reader through this dynamic subject
• Encourages students to actively think about the challenges that face every organisation in this changing, global economy
• Mini case studies throughout provide an opportunity for students to relate the theory they have learnt into manageable, real world examples



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