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Cases in the Environment of Business
International Perspectives
First Edition
- David W. Conklin - The Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Series:
The Ivey Casebook Series
The Ivey Casebook Series
Courses:
Business & Society
Business & Society
July 2005 | 624 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The Ivey Casebooks Series is a co-publishing partnership between SAGE Publications and the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario. Due to their popularity in more than 60 countries, approximately 200 new cases are added to the Ivey School of Business library each year. Each of the casebooks comes equipped with instructor's resources on CD-ROM. These affordable collections will not only help students connect to real-world situations, but will benefit corporations seeking continued education in the field as well.
Broadening the scope of environmental forces to a global rather than a domestic context leads to cross-country comparisons that add complexity to the subject matter, enrich analytical theories, and heighten the interest of students. Students gain an appreciation for the many ways in which environmental forces interact, creating a set of risks and opportunities that is unique in each country and that must be evaluated in formulating trade and investment decisions.
Cases in the Environment of Business offers an outstanding collection of relevant, classroom-tested cases. In discussing the cases, students will participate in managerial decisions in an international context. Most cases deal with a variety of environmental forces, but generally a single set of forces plays a predominant role. The instructor's resources on CD-ROM includes detailed 6-10 page casenotes for each case, preparation questions for students to review before class, discussion questions, and suggested further readings.
Cases in the Environment of Business addresses the following five sets of environmental forces:
Broadening the scope of environmental forces to a global rather than a domestic context leads to cross-country comparisons that add complexity to the subject matter, enrich analytical theories, and heighten the interest of students. Students gain an appreciation for the many ways in which environmental forces interact, creating a set of risks and opportunities that is unique in each country and that must be evaluated in formulating trade and investment decisions.
Cases in the Environment of Business offers an outstanding collection of relevant, classroom-tested cases. In discussing the cases, students will participate in managerial decisions in an international context. Most cases deal with a variety of environmental forces, but generally a single set of forces plays a predominant role. The instructor's resources on CD-ROM includes detailed 6-10 page casenotes for each case, preparation questions for students to review before class, discussion questions, and suggested further readings.
Cases in the Environment of Business addresses the following five sets of environmental forces:
- Industry Structure Responses to strategies of customers, suppliers, and competitors, ; dependence of profitability on unique value-added attributesand the shift of certain activities to low-wage countries
- Macroeconomic Variables Income levels and growth rates, foreign exchange rates, inflation rates, interest rates, and unemployment rates
- Political Variables Regulations, financial incentives, taxation, foreign investment restrictions, and international trade and investment agreements
- Societal Variables Labor and environmental practices, ethics, corporate social responsibility, boards of directors, and demographics
- Technological Variables Technological infrastructure and the pace and direction of technological changes, including, in particular, the Internet and e-business.
The IVEY Casebook Series
Cases in Business Ethics
Cases in Entrepreneurship
Cases in Gender & Diversity in Organizations
Cases in Operations Management
Cases in Organizational Behavior
Cases in the Environment of Business
Cases in Alliance Management
Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases
Paul W. Beamish
Introduction to the Ivey Casebook Series
Preface
Introduction
1. The Dependence of Profitability on Industry Structure
2. Understanding and Managing Macroeconomic Risks
3. Managing Within Alternative Government Structures
4. Responding to Societal Forces
5. Investment Decisions in the Context of Technological Changes
6. Integrative Cases
References
About the Editor
"Conklin has compiled an excellent selection from the case library of the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, the world’s second-largest collection of business cases written by professors. . . . Cases are clearly written with tables, graphs, income statements, balance sheets, and suggested readings within most cases. . . . Highly recommended."
Emritus, University of Connecticut
CHOICE
"The highlight of the book is its diversity and breadth. The cases are chosen from a variety of industries . . . The key differentiating features of this book are the holistic perspective that it provides on the business environment and the different country contexts that it presents."
Imstitute of Technology Madras
Sage College Publishing
