MT 140: introduction to management Prof: William Whitle Unit 2: Macro environment Name: KAlsayed Date: 09-08-2012 THE MACROENVIRONMENT The general environment; includes governments, economic conditions, and other fundamental factors that generally affect all organizations (Brady, 2009). The changes in the macro-environment are not affecting firm’s day-to-day operations, but they are important for the continuous of the business and for being healthy. The main factors
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phenomenon has brought about high economic growth (Dreher, 2003) and improved standard of living. It is thus deduced that globalisation will be able to serve as an effective tool to reduce poverty (Nissanke, Thorbecke, 2005). However, heated debate has arise concerning the unequal outcomes in economic gains created by globalization. Despite a decreasing amount of people living in poverty in China, poverty in areas outside China has increased (Stiglitz, 2006). Along with economic effects, it is also suggested
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A cost-benefit example - To bank or not to bank In everyday life we have choices to make. The choices we make usually result from deciding which scenario will give us the most benefit. Benefit will mean different things to different people therefore what one person will consider a benefit, the next person may think as a cost (Frank, Jennings, Bernanke 2009). An example of cost-benefit thinking was recently reported in The Mercury Newspaper (March 10 2010). The true story reported that a
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then, therefor GDP would obviously be both inflated and deflated. What I don’t understand is why it took the bureau of labor statistics to find out that using only one year’s prices would call for incorrect GDP along with incorrect assumptions on economic expansions and contractions and what caused them. I do, however, have to disagree and believe that computers did have to do with the recovery of the economy in 1991. Though spending on computers wasn’t as high as they originally believed, these computers
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Budgeting is a key component in management short and long term planning” I agreed that budgeting is important to management short and long term planning. Budgeting is important to management as it helps people on making decision whether they have enough money to progress through to the next step of planning, expanding the business and earning profit for themselves. If budgeting or planning doesn’t exist in management, there is a risk on business spending more money than earning it, in other words
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16. By investing in green technology and practices and becoming a more socially responsible organization Tesco may benefit in a number of ways: • Improved corporate image and possible creation of a USP or competitive advantage as a result. This is important given the criticism of Tesco’s practices by the pressure group described in the case. Tesco can find a unique position of a socially responsible firm who provided good quality/value for money products • Improved image
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Chapter 3 Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model Copyright © 2012 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. Preview • • • • • • • • Opportunity costs and comparative advantage Production possibilities Relative supply, relative demand & relative prices Trade possibilities and gains from trade Wages and trade Misconceptions about comparative advantage Transportation costs and non-traded goods Empirical evidence Copyright © 2012 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved
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Yaanom Beyebi is a firm with the desire or intention of venturing into the manufacturing sector in Ghana. As we are told the market is promising and lucrative nevertheless very competitive. However, before anyone can enter into any business venture, it is very essential to study the market and have an in-depth understanding about how the industry operates. This is done by analyzing all the factors affecting the business internally and externally in order to know what strategy to adopt to stay competitive
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Characteristics of risk and return in risk arbitrage Purpose of this paper is to analyze 4750 mergers from 1963 to 1998 to characterize the risk and return in risk arbitrage. After the announcement of a merger or acquisition the target company stock typically trade at discount to the price offered by the acquiring company. The difference is known as arbitrage spread, called merge arbitrage referred to an investment strategy making profit from this spread. If merger is successful the arbitrageur
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Co-Op Bank and Abc In: Business and Management Co-Op Bank and Abc DEFINITION (ABC) Activity-Based Costing is the costing approach that identifies and classifies a business’s activities and then allocates a cost to each activity. ABC subsequently assigns these costs to all the services or products associated with the actual consumption. By applying ABC, a business can accurately estimate the cost of an individual product or service. Organisations can then recognize and remove those products
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