L1 Business Environment

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Mindmap on Lecture 1 of MMS
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L1 Business Environment
  1. Things that govern the environment
    1. Financial

      Annotations:

      • Credit availability, state of the economy, taxes, market size, exchange rates, interest rates, unemployment
      1. Physical

        Annotations:

        • Resource availabilty, Transport, Buildings,  Technology, R&D
        1. Rules

          Annotations:

          • Legal and social norms
        2. Cultural environment
          1. Anglo-Saxon countries

            Annotations:

            • Less regulation, taxes, free trade, less public interference
            1. Social Markets

              Annotations:

              • More social policies, state interference for justice. Worker rights.
              1. Asian markets

                Annotations:

                • Firms left to do business but government guides them.
              2. Carroll's pyramid of business responsibilities
                1. Economic-Required
                  1. Legal-Required
                    1. Ethical-Expected
                      1. Philanthropic-Desired
                      2. Stakeholders
                        1. Suppliers
                          1. Customers
                            1. Employees
                              1. Environment
                                1. Society
                                  1. Shareholders
                                  2. Business Philanthrophy
                                    1. For

                                      Annotations:

                                      • - Morale Raiser - Another form of marketing - Corporate Philanthropy does not compromise economic objectives (Convergence of objectives)
                                      1. Against

                                        Annotations:

                                        • Friedman's Neo-Classical posiion: -Business objective is solely for shareholders -Employees and Shareholders should donate themselves -Waste of money that does not help economic objective -Wage raises could be given instead
                                        1. Friedman------------------Stakeholder view
                                          1. Strategic philanthropy
                                        2. External Environment analysis
                                          1. PESTEL

                                            Annotations:

                                            • -Political -Economic -Sociocultural -Technological -Environmental -Legal
                                            1. For

                                              Annotations:

                                              • -Easy to understand -Overviews external environment -Encourages strategy -Foresee future threats/opportunities 
                                              1. Against

                                                Annotations:

                                                • - Too simple, environment is complex - Needs to be regularly updated - Requires lots of people to manage it - Data is difficult to collect -Overlapping factors - Subjective results
                                              2. NEEDLE model

                                                Annotations:

                                                • Layers of activities: -Activities, Strategic, Organisational, Environmental
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