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Managing firms throughout the business cycle

The first decade of the 21st century has been a rollercoaster ride for economic activity. Business confidence was high at the start of the...

Decision making across the business cycle

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...

Providing support through the stages of the business cycle

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

Business activities and care for the environment

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

Encouraging innovation through intellectual property rights

In a rapidly changing competitive environment knowledge has become the basis for organisations to develop advantages. When individuals create new products or processes they...

Constructing the future

Many people perceive the construction industry as towering cranes over a city skyline or a pile of bricks and cement in a backyard. In...

Championing competition

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....

Meeting and exceeding consumer protection laws to drive competitive advantage

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

Whitbread in the community

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...

Social and environmental responsibility

Businesses help society to prosper. They do so by providing goods and services that consumers want. Businesses also contribute to the well-being of society....

Socially responsible investment

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

Using technology to improve economies

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

Steering the economy

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

The knowledge-driven economy

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...

Business ethics and corporate social responsibility

Anglo American is one of the world”s leading mining companies. It is a UK public limited company and operates on a global scale. Anglo...

Providing consumers with ethically sourced garments

Rapid changes in media, transport and communications technology have made the world economy more interconnected now than in any previous period of history. Nowhere...

Business principles in action nutritional labelling

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...

Use of PEST analysis at UNISON

UNISON is Britain and Europe's biggest public sector trade union, representing more than 1.3 million members working in public services. Job roles they represent...

Strategic planning responding to external influences

Experian operates the UK's largest Credit Reference Agency (CRA). There are three in the UK. Banks and credit card companies share information about their...

Using PESTEL to design effective strategies

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

Meeting global and local needs

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...

Welfare to work

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

Water as a precious asset

We all have different needs. If you were asked what they were you might talk about the need to buy a motorbike, to have...

Regulating a utility

We all rely upon having access to water throughout each day every day of our lives. Think how many times over a 24 hour...

Partners in international trade

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

Supporting international trade

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