External Environment Case Studies by topic

Land Securities is the UK's leading property company. It is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100....

CIMA, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, is the world’s leading body for management accountants. Management accountants can provide management information and insights as...

Everybody faces a degree of uncertainty within his or her daily lives. No matter how well people plan, it is impossible to get rid...

Put a Victorian school teacher into a modern classroom, with books and blackboards, and he or she would find little had changed fundamentally. However,...

In recent years, there has been a radical transformation in the way in which stocks and shares are traded. At one time, if a...

Aggregate minerals are an important resource and their use is essential to national prosperity. They are vital for building new or improved housing, hospitals,...

DSGi is the leading European specialist retailer of consumer electronics. In the UK the Group includes the well known chains of Currys, Dixons, PC...

An Office of Fair Trading case study We live in an economic system that is generally good at channelling scarce resources towards meeting consumers' needs....

All organisations operate within a wider environment in which they need to carefully build up and to sustain long-term relationships. In recent times it...

In the business world, ‘investment’ has two separate but related meanings. For many producers, ‘investment’ means spending money in ways that add to the...

Suppose that every person in the world were to demand goods and services in the same quantities as people in western industrialised nations demand...

In providing an overview of the workings of the economy, this case study focuses on the key role of HM Treasury in implementing Government...

This case study focuses upon the findings of the Department of Trade and Industry which illustrate how the development of a knowledge-driven economy is...

Vodafone is a leading international mobile communications company with interests in 27 countries and partnership agreements with a further 40 countries, including Safaricom in...

The role of the accountant In today's increasingly competitive and uncertain business environment, organisations fighting for customers face a number of factors and issues which...

Consumers have higher expectations than ever before. They want products to match these expectations. They also want accurate, up-to-date and useful information about what...

All organisations have a responsibility to their stakeholders. These are individuals and groups who have a stake in the running of the organisation and...

When people think of rail travel they think of trains. They do not think about the infrastructure of the train network. This consists of...

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) helps people to understand the law and, if necessary, helps them to gain their rights under the law. The...

All business organisations operate within an external environment of change. The success of each business very much depends on its ability to adapt and...

Siemens AG is a global electrical and electronics business with a turnover of £53 billion. The business employs over 450,000 people. The company base...

After the Second World War, the British welfare state was further strengthened. The welfare programme offered citizens an education, an opportunity to find a...

These state monopolies reduced consumer choice. For example, only one producer supplied gas, and only one producer supplied electricity. Power lay with government ministers....

With the discovery of a previously unknown planet, one of the first things we would want to know is its capacity for supporting any...

One of the biggest challenges for business organisations in the UK is learning how and where to trade overseas. In an interdependent world, international...

This case study focuses on the HSBC Group, which, as one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, is able...