EXAM-1 STUDY GUIDE DUE ON FEBRUARY 28TH PLEASE SUBMIT IN THE DROP BOX IN MICROSOFT WORD. CHAPTER-1 The Microbial World and You List several ways in which microbes affect our lives. Help maintain the balance of living organisms and chemicals in our environment. Marine and fresh water microorganisms form the bases of the food chain in oceans‚ lakes‚ and ricers. Soil microbes help break down wastes and incorporate nitrogen gas from the air into organic compounds‚ thereby recycling chemical
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Name: Margo De Ridder Student number: R0141223 Module: Marketing Fundamentals The tablet market: External analysis of the micro-environment The global tablet PC market continues to grow with shipments reaching 53.8 million units in the third quarter of 2014. The rise in shipment from 48.3 million units in the third quarter of 2013 to 53.8 million units in the third quarter of 2014 can be attributed to the growing demand from costumers as the tablet industry offers the costumer a smaller sized
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Environmental Determinism Throughout the study of geography‚ there have been a number of different approaches to explaining the development of the world’s societies and cultures. One that received much prominence in geographic history but has declined in recent decades of academic study is environmental determinism. Environmental determinism is the belief that the environment (most notably its physical factors such as landforms and/or climate) determines the patterns of human culture and societal
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P6 & M3: Political‚ legal and social factors impacting the business There is a range of influences that can affect the business in the business environment. Usually these influences cannot be controlled by the business itself. In P5 and M2 tasks I have presented the different economic impacts‚ and now I will present the political‚ legal and social factors in my P6‚ M3 and D2 tasks. Political factors There are 3 types of government that affect the country and these are Local‚ National Government
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Pollution - Environmental pollution is any discharge of material or energy into water‚ land‚ or air that causes or may cause acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term) detriment to the Earth ’s ecological balance or that lowers the quality of life. Pollutants may cause primary damage‚ with direct identifiable impact on the environment‚ or secondary damage in the form of minor perturbations in the delicate balance of the biological food web that are detectable only over long time periods. Until relatively
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aggregate demand and aggregate supply for all goods and services. The main concerns of Macroeconomics are the rate of inflation‚ unemployment and economic growth. On the other hand‚ Microeconomics deals with the functioning of individual consumers‚ business firms and households. While it seems Microeconomics is totally the opposite of Macroeconomics‚ they are actually interdependent and complement one another. This paper will simplify the difference and the connection of the two studies.
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Defining Environmental Crimes Environmental crime is a serious and growing concern at national as well as international level‚ and one which takes many different forms. Environmental crime in broad terms means an act which is committed with the intention of damaging or causing damage to the ecological and biological systems to ensure business or personal benefit. The types of acts commonly recognised as environmental crime are: pollution or other contamination of air‚ land and water; illegal discharge
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USING KM MODEL TO EXAMINE A FORM’S EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT IN STRATEGIC ANALYSIS Diana Kao‚ Tony Mao Odette School of Business‚ University of Windsor‚ Windsor‚ Ontario‚ Canada N9B 3P4 Tel: 1-519-253-3000 ext.5065‚ E-mail: kao@uwindsor.ca‚ tmao@uwindsor.ca Abstract: The sustainability of a firm mainly depends on whether the firm has an effective strategy to align its internal operations with changes in the external environment. This paper introduces the KM model‚ which is a framework that guides
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Environmental Scan of Apple and Toyota University of Phoenix Strategic Management MGT/498 November 28‚ 2014 Environmental Scan of Apple and Toyota Introduction Toyota Motor Corporation is a leading automobile manufacturer in the world due to its unique principles and successful strategic management. Apple is an American company specializing in consumer electronics. The paper highlights the internal and external business environment of Toyota and Apple. The internal and external business environment
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An environmental scanning process consists of an organization gathering information about the industry in which it operates‚ including information about the economy‚ government‚ laws and demographic factors such as population size‚ distribution and other factors. The organization should focus on its competitors. The company should examine the research for trends‚ opportunities and threats that might impact its business. An internal scan of the organization is needed to examine the organizations strengths
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