Understanding Business Environments (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lucas, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What are the forces shaping today's business world? Understanding Business Environments provides key readings which introduce the student to the factors underlying the business environment. Including chapters by gurus such as Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall and Will Hutton, the book covers:
* social forces including the social structure and long-term social change
* technological factors including Information Technology and new production technologies
* economic factors including the impact of macroeconomic policy and of the financial system
* political factors including the legal environment and government-business relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134555901
• Artikelnr.: 38448519

Autorenporträt

Michael Lucas, the Open University

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: THE CONCEPT OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 1 Globalisation 2
Identifying environmental issues 3 The traditions of thought in the study
of economy and society SECTION 1: THE ECONOMY 4 Conservative governments
and the economy, 1979-97 5 Finance unbound 6 The management of the UK
economy 7 A marxist reading of the UK economy and its management 8 Living
without borders 9 Global cooperation or rival trade blocs? SECTION 2:
SOCIETY 10 The structure of society 11 Social trends since World War II 12
Changing social divisions: class gender and race 13 Why inequality doesn't
work 14 A new international division of labour? 15 Culture and management
SECTION 3: THE STATE 16 An overview of the English legal system 17 Power
and the state 18 Putting the advanced capitalist state in perspective 19
Government-business relations in Japan and Korea 20 Business routes of
influence in Brussels: exploring the choice of direct representation 21
Globalization and the advanced capitalist state SECTION 4: THE SYSTEM?
TECHNOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND GLOBALISATION 22 Creating the corporate future 23
Daniel Bell and the information society 24 Global information
infrastructure: eliminating the distance barrier 25 Globalization, new
production concepts and income distribution 26 A road map for natural
capitalism 27 Reflections on the politics linking science, environment and
innovation