ARTICLE CONSIDERS THE IMPACT OF 'EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT' ON THE CONTINUING PROCESS OF EUROPEAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION. THE AUTHOR NOTES THE FAVORABLE EXTERNAL ROLE PLAYED BY THE SUPERPOWERS' POLICY OF DETENTE, WHICH ALLOWED THE COMMUNITY TO EXPAND IN A PEACEFUL AND SEEMINGLY SECURE ENVIRONMENT. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT, TO PLAY A MORE SIGNIFICANT EXTERNAL ROLE, COHESIVE POLICIES MUST DEVELOP.
The starting point from which we began our research was that many companies around the world could not predict and adapt to the new changes taking place in the environment (closure due to the corona virus pandemic, war in Ukraine, sanctions against Russia). Through strategic analysis, companies were able to gather information about planned scenarios and based on them, quality decisions could be made. The goal of the research is to point out the importance of strategic analysis, as an important phase in strategic planning, in order to avoid or mitigate all threats that have arisen in the external environment. The paper will present methods and techniques, with which management will collect data, all with the aim of making timely decisions. The methods we used for the work are: analysis and synthesis. The results of the research show us that if companies master these methods and techniques of strategic management on the one hand and have quality management on the other hand, they can largely predict the emergence of potential threats from the external environment. To avoid crisis situations, it is necessary for every company to incorporate crisis management within its organization.
This paper is a case study which explores the use of qualitative accounting information to measure business confidence in the external environment in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe experienced a very difficult external environment between the years of 2000 and 2008, characterized by social tension, political strife, and economic instability heightened by record hyperinflation and commodity shortages. However Zimbabwe
In: Razvoj - development, international: journal of problems of socio-economic development, developing countries and international relations, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 295-321
In: Razvoj - development, international: journal of problems of socio-economic development, developing countries and international relations, Band 1, S. 295-319
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how factors in the external environment affect social enterprise (SE) development in Canada. With the decline in government funding for non-profit organizations, SE development is gaining greater traction. SEs are businesses and can be analyzed with methods similar to those for traditional businesses. Just as the external environment is important for assessing the success of businesses, in this study, the authors examine the external environment related to SEs.
Design/methodology/approach In this statistical analysis, the authors compared 62 factors across 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) in Canada while treating SE revenue as the dependent variable. Links between the dependent variable and the external environment were analyzed through correlation and regression tests. Publicly available revenue figures for non-profit SEs by CMAs were compared with a selection of external environment factors, including demographic information and health indicators, also organized by CMA, as published by Statistics Canada.
Findings The analysis demonstrated that three of the factors displayed significant positive correlation and one resulted in a predictive value. Positive correlations were discovered between SE revenue per capita and three of the variables: university education, perceived health, very good or excellent and no religious affiliation. Only university education was found to have predictive value.
Originality/value This study is the first to compare SE revenue and the external environment across Canada's CMAs. The results show that factors in the external environment create conditions more conducive to SE development.
The paper shows the calculations justifying the influence of external environment on the agrarian production that is affected by a large number of factors. A methodological approach that differentiates this aggregate by a combination of factor elements at the global, national, regional and industry levels is presented. This approach is positioned as hierarchical, subordinating, and defined by the term multi-levelness. The composition of the factor elements of each of these levels is represented by the parameters that are co-ordinated towards each other, reflecting a different type of connection between them, characterized by their location in the same row, without reflecting the hierarchy. The groups of factor elements are highlighted: environmental, social, political, legal, technological, natural, environmental, informational. The idea of studying the influence of the external environment on agricultural production has been implemented, combining the definition of the degree of influence by hierarchical levels of influence, as well as on the coordinating groups of factor elements in each level. On this basis, territorial differences in the degree of influence of the external environment on the state and trends of agriculture in the economic regions of the Russian Federation have been revealed.
