LoginExternal environment case studies
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- Business and the environment
- Business cycle
- Consumer protection
- Corporate responsibility
- Economy
- Ethics
- External influences
- Globalisation
- Government influence
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Business and the environment
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How an Environmental Management System (EMS) helps create a sustainable business
Edition 8: This case study shows how Travis Perkins has built an EMS based on the International Standard ISO 14001 in order to reduce costs and make a major contribution to ‘sustainability’. Therefore, it intends to minimise its impact on the environment.
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The message is in the medium
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Doing Better By The Environment
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Business cycle
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Decision making across the business cycle
Edition 16: The case study illustrates how management accountants support business decision making during all the stages of the business cycle.
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Working within the business cycle
Edition 15: This case study illustrates how building societies manage theirbusiness during the various phases of the business cycle.
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Managing firms throughout the business cycle
Edition 14: This case study examines how Davis Service Group, one of Britain's key service companies, has managed the recent change in the business cycle.
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Planning and the business cycle
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand the business cycle and how companies manage risk and investment by understanding the external environment.
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Consumer protection in business
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Meeting and exceeding consumer protection laws to drive competitive advantage
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand consumer protection and how companies need to exceed legal requirements in competitive market places.
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Championing competition
Edition 8: This case study looks at how the OFT helps to make markets work better for consumers through its roles of investigation, enforcement and communication. We can support the work of the OFT by becoming more discriminating and by seeking and demanding excellent products and high standards of service.
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Corporate responsibility in business
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Edition 12: This case study describes how the work Amway does with UNICEF supports its Corporate Social Responsibility strategy.
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Social and environmental responsibility
Edition 12: This case study highlights how Anglo American contributes to sustainable development through being socially and environmentally responsible.
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Creating a corporate social responsibility strategy
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand strategies for meeting stakeholders' needs.
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Working for sustainable development in primary industry
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand sustainability, stakeholders and ethics as well as the links between these topics.
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Nutrition, Health & Wellness - New Product Development at Nestle
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand how companies research, develop and launch new products.
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Meeting global responsibilities by caring for communities
Edition 10: As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, Students should be able to: know the meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), give examples of CSR activities, understand the importance to business of being involved with communities on a local and global scale.
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The importance of social responsibility
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Corporate Citizenship and the community
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Economy in business
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Using technology to improve economies
Edition 14: This case study highlights Vodafone's activities in different types of economies and the impactof technology on both developed and developing markets
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Ethics in business
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Business ethics and sustainability in the steel industry
Edition 16: This case study looks at how Tata Steel is committed to environmentally-sound practices and tackling the challenges of sustainability.
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Providing consumers with ethically sourced garments
Edition 15: This case study shows how Primark sources the clothes it sells in its shops in an ethical and fair way, often at added cost to itself.
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Business ethics and corporate social responsibility
Edition 13: This case study shows the challenges Anglo American faces in its industry and how it seeks to make ethical choices in its business practice.
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Business principles in action - nutritional labelling
Edition 12: This case study shows how market research has helped Nestlé understand what consumers wanted to know about Nestlé products so they can make informed choices. This has enabled Nestle to exercise corporate responsibility and demonstrate its business principles.
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Developing and implementing a strategic approach to ethics
Edition 10: As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: explain the importance of ethics, understand how a strategic approach to ethics is more likely to be effective, understand how ethics can shape responses to change.
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The contribution of accountants to sound, ethical business practice
Edition 9: As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: understand the nature and purpose of accounting, appreciate the role of professional accountants in managing information and using knowledge for decision-taking purposes , understand the contribution made by accounting standards and a code of ethics towards providing a true and fair view of business performance.
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Ethical business practices
Edition 9: As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: understand what is meant by ethical behaviour within business, explain the possible broad-ranging benefits of ethical behaviour, describe the ways in which Cadbury Schweppes behaves ethically towards its stakeholders.
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External influences in business
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Responding to changes in the market environment
Edition 16: This case study reviews the external factors that have had an impact on Jessops' operations and strategy.
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Intellectual property and the external environment
Edition 15: The role of the IPO is to help manage intellectual property rightsto encourage innovation and creativity. Like all businesss, it needs to take account of and respond to influences in the external environment.
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Use of PEST analysis at UNISON
Edition 14: This case study focuses on the issues faced by migrant workers in the UK.
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Highways Agency - PEST analysis
Edition 14: This case study looks at the political, economic, social and technological factors that impact on the Highways Agency.
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Managing external influences
Edition 13: This case study looks at how PESTEL analysis helps a business to identify which factors in its business environment may be threats or opportunities and to plan for them.
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Using PEST analysis to identify external influences
Edition 13: This case study focuses on the work of the LSC and illustrates what factors affect its performance and how it responds to these factors.
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Feeding and fuelling the world through technology
Edition 13: This case study looks at how Syngenta, one of the world's leading plant science businesses, is meeting the dual challenge of increasing crop yield and producing alternative fuels.
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Using PESTEL to design effective strategies
Edition 12: This case study describes how PESTEL analysis helps Network Rail to respond to changes in its business environment.
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How McCain responds to changes in the external environment
Edition 12: This case study highlights how use of a SLEPT analysis helps a company respond to changes in its external environment and remain competitive.
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Strategic planning - responding to external influences
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand how effective planning is developed by understanding changes in the external environment.
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Responding to a changing marketing environment
Edition 10: As a result of Carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: know that Castrol’s heritage is based on a combination of technical excellence in the development and production of oils and a focus on meeting the needs of customers, understand key elements of the dynamic marketing environment in which Castrol operates, and that Castrol has responded to this environment by providing technically superior products, know that Castrol’s oils and lubricants are designed to meet the need of a variety of market segments.
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How Lloyd's responds to changes in the business environment
Edition 10: As a reult of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: understand that the business environment is uncertain and volatile, know that businesses cannot avoid taking risks, value the importance of businesses and households obtaining insurance cover against risk.
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Competitive advantage through sustainable product development in construction
Edition 9: As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: understand the nature of competitive markets, appreciate how the external environment should provide the basis for planning strategy, appreciate how sustainability creates opportunities for businesses.
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Regeneration: meeting needs in a changing environment
Edition 9: As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: identify different activities undertaken by commercial property companies such as Land Securities, understand the meaning and benefits of urban regeneration, appreciate the importance of external influences on a firm’s activities.
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Responding to a changing external business environment
Edition 9: As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: appreciate the complexity of a typical organisation’s business environment, understand the importance of using marketing activities to match the competitive position of an organisation with the environment it serves, understand the various elements of a SLEPT analysis.
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Introducing an established brand - bringing Yellow Bus to Britain
Edition 8: This case study focuses on the Yellow Bus concept and how First is introducing them to the UK. Launching the service in the UK has been made easier by the existing brand recognition and by the strong positive image nurtured through years of exposure in American films and TV series.
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Globalisation in business
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Meeting global and local needs
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand companies by meeting needs across markets.
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Government influence in business
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How HMRC collects tax revenue to support Government policy
Edition 12: This case study describes the role of HMRC in managing taxation an dhow this supports Government financial policies.
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Integration in the public sector: HM Revenue and Customs
Edition 11: This case study helps students understand how integration in the public sector benefits stakeholders, mirroring private sector mergers and acquisitions.
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Matching taxation principles with environmental policies
Edition 8: This case study focuses on the use of environmental taxes, and the important role played by HM Customs & Excise in administering these taxes in support of the UK government’s hopes and plans for environmental improvement.
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The importance of competition policy
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