Chapter 1 Business Organizations The Internal Environment
DOI: 10.23912/978-1-910158-78-4-2923 | ISBN: 978-1-910158-78-4 |
Published: January 2016 | Component type: chapter |
Published in: Enterprise and its Business Environment | Parent DOI: 10.23912/978-1-910158-78-4-2851 |
Abstract
Anyone embarking upon a journey towards a genuine understanding of business must acquire an underpinning knowledge of the inner workings of the firm, how a firm sustains its operations, and the relationship between the firm and its external environment. This chapter gives a detailed definition of the internal business environment, and the main purpose of both business organizations and strategy are discussed. Furthermore, an understanding of the key concepts relating to business organizations and how such organizations continue to create value for the consumer in today’s uncertain business environment will be developed.
Sample content
Contributors
- Julie McFarlane, Heriot-Watt University (Author) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6775-1840
- Ross Curran (Author)
For the source title:
- Norin Arshed, Heriot-Watt University (Editor) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6775-1840
- Julie McFarlane, Heriot-Watt University (Editor) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-9836
- Robert MacIntosh, Heriot-Watt University (Editor) http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7333-0201
Cite as
McFarlane & Curran, 2016
McFarlane, J. & Curran, R. (2016) "Chapter 1 Business Organizations The Internal Environment" In: Arshed, N., McFarlane, J. & MacIntosh, R. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-910158-78-4-2923
Save, bookmark or recommend
 Save on Mendeley |  Share on Twitter |  Share on LinkedIn |  Share on Facebook |
References
Boddy, D. (2009). Management. 5 th Edition. US: Financial Times/Prentice Hall.
Casadesus-Masanell, R., & Ricart, J. E. (2010). From strategy to business models and onto tactics. Long range planning, 43(2), 195-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2010.01.004
Finkelstein, S., Harvey, C., and Lawton, T. (2007). Breakout strategy: meeting the challenge of double digit growth. McGraw Hill. Available at: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wongls/icaas-web/events/Thomas-Lawton-apr07-ppt.pdf.
Hill, C. (2011). Global Business Today (7 th edition). New York: McGraw Hill.
Litchfield, R. C., Gilson, L. L., and Gilson, P. W. (2015) Defining creative ideas toward a more nuanced approach. Group & Organization Management, 9(40), pp. 238-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601115574945
MacIntosh, R., & Maclean, D. (2015). Strategic Management: Strategists at Work. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-03545-5
McGoldrick, P. (2002). Retail Marketing. 1st Edition. New York: McGraw Hill.
Mintzberg, H. (1973). The Nature of Managerial Work. New York: Harper and Row.
Mintzberg, H. (1989). Mintzberg on Management: Inside our Strange World of Organizations. New York: Free Press.
Mintzberg, H., Ahlstrand, B. W., Ahlstrand, B. and Lampel, J. (2005) Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management. New York: Free Press.
Osterwalder, A. (2010). The Business Model Ontology: A Proposition in a Design Science Approach. New Jersey: Wiley
Porter, M. E.(1985) The Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. NY: Free Press.
Porter, M. (2013) On Competition, Boston: Harvard Business Review Press.
Ruppel, C., Tworoger, L., & Tworoger, T. (2012). Telework: Identifying a personal dimension to work-related socio-technical theory. Advances in Business Research, 3(1), pp. 12-24.
Stewart, R. (1967) Managers and their Jobs, Macmillan
Trist, E. L. and K. W. Bamforth (1951). Some social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal getting. Human Relations, 4(3)
Ward, M., & Rhodes, C. (2014). Small Business and the UK Economy. Standard Note: SN/EP/6078. (9 December 2014). Economic Policy and Statistics. House of Commons Library.
Wedel, M. & Kamakura, W. (2000). Market Segmentation: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations. 2 nd Edition. Springer Science and Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4651-1
Worthington, I. and Britton, C. (2009) The Business Environment, Prentice Hall
Zeithaml, V. A. (1988), Consumer perceptions of price, quality, and value: Journal of Marketing, 52(3). https://doi.org/10.2307/1251446