Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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** The Dynamic
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CHAPTER
Environment:
Taking Risks
and Making
Profits
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Nickels
* McHugh
* McHugh
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1-1
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* Business & Entrepreneurship
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• Business
• Profit
• Entrepreneur
• Match Risk With Profit
• Revenue
• Loss
• Standard of Living/Quality
of Life
• Stakeholders
• Nonprofit Organizations
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* Objectives of Business
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Survival
Profit Social
Growth Responsibility
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* Creating Wealth:
* Factors of Production
• Land
• Labor
• Capital
• Entrepreneurship
• Knowledge
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* Ethics vs. Law
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• Ethics: Standards of moral behavior, that is
accepted by the society as right versus wrong.
• Law: Rules that a particular country or
community recognizes as regulating the
actions by its members and may enforce
penalties if broken.
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* Cont.…
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Business Environment
Technology
Social
Competitive
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* Economic &
* Legal Environment
$ Minimum taxes and regulations
$ Freedom of ownership
$ Contract laws
$ Tradable currency
$ Elimination/minimization of
corruption
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* Technological Environment
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• Productivity
• E-Commerce
• Responsiveness
to Customer
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* Competitive Environment
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• Customer
Expectations
• Restructure/Empower
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Social Environment
• Diversity/Multicultural
• Aging/Graying of
America
• Two-Income Families
• Single-Parent Families
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* 21st Century
* Diversity Issues
• Race • Age
• Gender • Language
• Ethnicity • Religion
• Disability • Sexual
Source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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* Evolution of
* American Business
• Agricultural/Manufacturing
• Service Industries
• Future???
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* Corporate Social Responsibility
* • CSR is the Business’s concern for the
welfare of the society.
• Examples:
Grameenphone is committed to work closely with Bangladesh Government
and concerned development agencies to achieve that target, with the aim to
raise awareness and advocate for necessary policy reforms on HIV/AIDS
through different communication channels.