President Jonathan’s Fuel Subsidy Removal and its Reversal The recent one-week shut-down of Nigerian economy following government’s fuel subsidy removal cost the economy $1.3b (Wagstyl‚ 2012). People resisted the good intentioned policy; they perceived that it would aggravate hardship. The resulting annual savings of $8 billion was to be re-channeled to infrastructure (Yusha ’u‚ 2012). It would also eradicate corruption (Wagstyl). During the crisis‚ local petroleum prices and global oil prices
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Financial Statement Analysis A financial statement analysis will be presented for Microsoft Corporation. “Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing‚ manufacturing‚ licensing and supporting a range of software products and services for different types of computing devices†(MSN.com‚ 2010). This corporation trades publicly (NASDAQ: MSFT) and does business in Puerto Rico with offices in Guaynabo‚ PR (services) and Humacao‚ PR (manufacturing and services). To measure their progress
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PEST & PESTEL Analysis D EFIN ITIO N “P ES T A N A LY S IS – A N A N A LY S IS O F TH E P O LITIC A L‚ EC O N O M IC ‚ S O C IA L A N D TEC H N O LO G IC A L FA C TO R S IN TH E EX TER N A L EN V IR O N M EN T O F A N O R G A N IZ ATIO N ‚ W H IC H C A N A FFEC T ITS A C TIV ITIES A N D P ER FO R M A N C E.” [1] “P ES TEL M O D EL IN V O LV ES TH E C O LLEC TIO N A N D P O R TR AYA L O F IN FO R M ATIO N A B O U T EX TER N A L FA C TO R S W H IC H H A V E‚ O R M AY H A V E‚ A N IM PA C T O N B U
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PESTEL analysis Political/Legal Environment Over the past several years‚ there has seen a plethora of patent lawsuits within the smartphone industry. In the highlycompetitive environment‚ manufacturers of handsets have been aggressive in protecting their intellectual properties by suingcompetitors by claiming infringements on patents. For example‚ in March 2010‚ Apple sued HTC for allegedly infringing on20 Apple patents (Weil‚ 2010). Apple also sued Nokia in 2010 for similar patent infringements("Patent
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International Journal of Business and Management; Vol. 7‚ No. 24; 2012 ISSN 1833-3850 E-ISSN 1833-8119 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Developing a Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for PESTEL Analysis İhsan Yüksel1 1 Department of Business Management ‚ Kırıkkale University‚ Kırıkkale‚ Turkey Correspondence: İhsan Yüksel‚ Department of Business Management‚ Kırıkkale University‚ 7140 Kırıkkale‚ Turkey. Tel: 90-318-3573860. E-mail: yuksel@kku.edu.tr Received:
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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington that develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4‚ 1975. Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.[3] It is also one of theworld’s most valuable companies.[4] Microsoft was established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair
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PESTEL Analysis In this part all factors‚ which influence the company as a whole but are out of their direct control including wider social‚ political and economic factors shall be explained. The analysis of those factors of the macro-environment is therefore often known as PESTEL analysis.3 PESTEL is an acronym for the six key strategic areas of change: Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Ecological and Legal and a technique for understanding the various external influences on a business4
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goods in the global marketing is extremely challenging. Discuss the major political‚ economic‚ socio-cultural‚ technological‚ legal and ecological challenges that a global marketing manager may have to contend with? The following analysis known as the PESTEL analysis is a framework used to scan the organization’s external macro environment which refers to forces that are part of the larger society and affect the micro environment. Selling and marketing goods in the global market intensifies these
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PESTEL Analysis The PESTEL framework evaluates the external environment variables to identify general opportunities and risks of particular strategies. 3.1 Political With selling cars in 17 countries ‚Tesla Motors has to deal with distinctive political patterns influencing its business operations.One of the major political factors affecting the industry is environmental protection laws to induce production of more environmental cars to meet strict emission levels. The second important factor is US government energy loan programs for
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PESTEL Analysis Political The government reduced drinks driving and binge drinking have resulted in a decline in beer consumption. Also‚ the introduction of the ’No Smoking in public buildings’ law would have an impact on people drinking in pubs. Economical Whilst sales volume have fallen‚ sale value has increased. This is due to premium products such as fruit beers. Large supermarkets are offering cut price deals to entice customers into their shops. There has been a high rise in packaging
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