Business Environment
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Business Environment can use as a manual for how to develop and analysis of business in a complex, critical, dynamic and progressive competitive environment. It is ideal for self- study and context includes the analysis of business and its components.
This book is specially designed for those who are the students of Business, MBA, PGDM & Executives. IT management, businessmen, entrepreneurs, consultants, small business owners, clients, customers, professionals, operating managers, middle-level managers across the management consultant, business executives and business professionals such as director of forecasting and planning, forecast manager, director of strategic planning, director of marketing, sales manager, advertising manager, CFO, financial officer, controller, treasurer, financial analyst, production manager, brand/product manager, new product manager, supply chain manager, logistics manager, material management manager, purchasing agent, scheduling manager, director of information systems and non MBA’s. Non-business background persons and stakeholders who look beyond not only profits but also to know and learn how to sharpen your firm’s environment edge and improve competitiveness and give a boost to your business or profession.
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Business Environment - Hiriyappa .B, Ph.D.
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BUSINESS
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Environment factors of constraints are largely if not totally external and beyond the control of individual industrial enterprises and their arrangements. These are essentially the ‘givers’ within which firms and their managements must operate in a specific country and they vary, often greatly from country to country
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Barry M. Richman and Melvyn Copen
The environment includes outside the firm which can lead to opportunities for or threats to the firm. Although, there are many factors, the most important of the sectors are soci-economic, technical, supplier, competitors, and government
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Glueck and Jauch
Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking
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Kenichi Ohmae
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change
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Charles Darwin
Strategy is a deliberate search for a plan of action that will develop a business’s competitive advantage and compound it
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Bruce D. Henderson
Awareness of the environment is not special project to be undertaken only when warning of change becomes deafening
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Clifton Garvin, Kenneth R. Andrews
INTRODUCTION
In this book, we shall discuss about the business, major objectives of business such as survival, stability, growth, efficiency and profitability, environmental influence to business, environment analysis, characteristics of business environment, components of business environment, to know the relationship between the organization and its environment, the micro and macro environment and its elements like customers, competitors, organization, market, suppliers, intermediaries, demographic, economic, government, legal, political, cultural, technological and global environment impact on business. Companies how to enter into global market, its manifestation trends, strategic response to business, Porter’s competitive and five forces model analysis for business enterprises in industry, commerce and services sector.
DEFINITION OF BUSINESS
The term ‘typically` refers to the development and processing of economic values in society. Normally, the term is applied to portion of economic activities. It main purpose is to provide goods and services to society in systematic manner. It is also applied to economics and commercial activities of institutions. It considers as other purposes.
Business principally comprises of an all profit seeking activities of the organization. It provides goods and services to customer, clients. It is the necessary to economic system. It is the major economic pulse of a nation; A Good business activities have to be striving to increase society’s standard of living. Business main motives are profit. It is a primary mechanism for motivating of doing business.
Organization has to do business. It has to make distribution of any article or service to the customers, who are belonging to members of the society. Business may be or may not be satisfied customer’s needs. Business provides goods and services to customers and customers are willing to pay for it.
Business may be defined as the organized effort by individuals to produce goods and services to sell these goods and services in a market place and to reap some reward for this effort
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Functionally, may define business as those human activities which involves production or purchase of goods with the object of selling them at a profit margin
. The term business refers to the state of being busy for an individual, group, organization or society.
It is also interpreted as one’s regular occupation or profession or economic activities. It deals with particular entity, company, organization, enterprise, firms or corporation.
It also interpreted as particular market segment sector like computer business and it included under term business. It is wide and willing to use different activities. It consists of purchase, sale, manufacture, processing, marketing of products, services like manufacturing, trading, transportation, warehousing, banking and finance, insurance and advertising etc.
It is clearly stated that all business activities main purpose is to earn profit. Profit as a surplus of business and it accrues and distributed to the owners of the business. Business has to pay wages to workers who work in the business. People invest money in business due to getting a return. Return is profit from the business. It is rewarded to investor because of they are taking the risk.
Profit is the motive for the investor who serves and run business and it is the stimulation effort of the business for growth and survival of business.
Profit Is a Main Motive of Business
For every kind of business organization, profit is often regarded as motive for the entrepreneurs and it measure the overall performance of the business. Profit is the tool for measuring and evaluation of the business efficiency, effectively and productivity at the managerial competence.
Doing the business is to helpful to strategic managers how to take healthy decisions and make actions. These are turn into effective in the form of able to combine and utilize the available resource and able to sustain the organization with growth and survival of the business entity. Manager who represent, manage, admin of the business who will take higher efficiency and risk with uncertainty and complex environment. The manager is expected higher volume of the profit from the business entity.
Business efficiency is measured in terms of percentage of profit to sales volume, to capital employed, and to market value of corporate shares. Public and Outside investors are eager to know the real profit of the firm and will to make on assessment about commit funds and effective utilization of funds the business entity. It measures expected rate of return present and future.