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Topic outline

 

  • Time: 6 hours
    Level: Masters

 
 

Introduction

  • Introduction Resource
  • ‘Environment’ is one of the more popular words in the management lexicon, most generally understood to be referring to ‘something outside’. But common usage today often interprets the Environment (with...
 

1 The commercial environment

  • 1.1 Globalisation Resource
  • Globalisation is something we tend to take for granted, mostly in the form of the remarkably low prices we pay for our consumer goods. When the first pocket calculator was launched in the UK in 1972, it...
  • 1.2 Offshoring Resource
  • The premise is straightforward. Given modern telecommunications capability, it matters little where telephone support is based. India, with a large population of English-speaking graduates and low (by...
 

2 The green environment

 

3 The ethical environment

  • 3.1 Codes of conduct Resource
  • One of the principles of the European Union Emissions Trading System discussed by Schultz and Williamson (2005) is that an organisation accepts responsibility for the performance of their suppliers. In...
  • 3.2 CSR reporting Resource
  • We mentioned earlier three reasons for environmentally friendly behaviour, effectively deriving from personally held values, niche marketing or regulatory pressure. To a large extent the same holds true...
 

4 Environmental factors and organisations: review

 

References and Acknowledgements

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