ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

The Concept of the Business Environment

chapter 1|6 pages

Globalisation

part 1|59 pages

The Economy

part 2|68 pages

Society

chapter 10|5 pages

The Structure of Society *

chapter 11|14 pages

Social Trends Since World War II *

chapter 12|23 pages

Changing Social Divisions

Class, Gender and Race *

chapter 13|12 pages

Why Inequality Doesn't Work *

part 3|55 pages

The State

chapter 17|5 pages

Power and the State *

chapter 20|6 pages

Business Routes of Influence in Brussels

Exploring the Choice of Direct Representation *

part 4|63 pages

The System? Technology, Ecology and Globalisation