Environmental scanning Essays

  • Organizational Environmental Scanning

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    Organizational Environmental Scanning Environmental scanning is the communication of external information about facts that could influence an organization on its’ strategic decision-making process. It is a method of analyzing relevant gathered information and use to determine strategic and premeditated action on the business environment. The environmental scanning process seek obtain both realistic and subjective information on the business environments where a corporation is functioning or considering

  • Environmental Scanning

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    Introduction Environmental scanning refers to information use and acquisition with regard to organizations relationships, events and trends in its external environment aimed at helping an organizations management in planning the organization’s future activities (Albright, 2004; Aguilar 1967; Choo and Auster, 1993). With regard to public relations, environmental scanning refers to the gathering of information on the reaction and opinion of the public towards the organization. Most organizations engage

  • Environmental Scanning

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    How Environmental Scanning Helps an Organization to Fomulate Strategy Including Both Microenvironment and Macroenvironment Factors. ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING Defination: • “Aguilar (1967). Aguilar defines environmental scanning as acquiring information about events and relationships in a company’s outside environment, the knowledge of which would assist top management in its task of charting the company’s future course of action”( Principles of Marketing Kotler 14th Edition) • Also defined as

  • Economic and Environmental Scanning

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    trends in the target market is critical to the company’s competitiveness. As an ongoing process, environmental scanning is used by management to investigate the interdependency of the various sectors of the target market and their respective patterns and trends. The results of the environmental scan should translate into the company’s guidelines for planning and decision-making. In comparing the environmental scans of the United States and that of Zambia, it was found that monitoring and understanding

  • International Market Selection

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    I. INTRODUCTION The international business development has heightened the importance of international market selection (IMS) of companies, especially for their exporting strategy. However, not many companies really comprehend the geographical, social, economic characteristics of foreign countries in comparison with their home countries (Cavusgil, 1985). This fact has challenged many studies to create the optimal approach for IMS. The major question is: Which foreign market should a company enter

  • Analysis Of The Micro And Macro Environment

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    SECTION A QUESTION 1 1.1 macro is the issues in business can represent any item or issue not directly controlled by the company, Availability of raw materials, government laws and regulations, number of eligible employees available to hire and the threat of competition can be just a few major forces that separate the micro and macro environment. Companies will often identify these factors and create policies that help them cope with the potential problems that may arise with each one. Studying the

  • Assessing International Marketing Opportunities for Small-and Medium-Sized Companies

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    I. INTRODUCTION The current business environments require firms to be highly aware of expansion of the global market. Entering a new market without sufficient understandings and preparation is never a good choice of companies to further their endeavor. Accordingly, a firm should take deliberate steps to analyze and recognize promising targets. For a company, especially an SME, the market research is an important issue that firms need to deliberate due to the limitations of its resources and capabilities

  • The Role of the Scanning Probe Microscopy in Nano-mechanical Testing

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    Introduction: Scanning probe microscopy in nano mechanical testing has started with the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in the year 1981. Till then based on the type of principles there are number of models developed and are in use. Scanning probe microscopy found popularity owing to its ease in versatility in dealing with a number of issues, typically it is used to identify the material properties on nano to even pico scales. Scanning probe microscopy techniques such as atomic/friction

  • Environmental Air Pollution

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    My views of the environment are rooted in my belief in creation. I do not believe that life on earth began spontaneously, nor do I believe that the earth is so delicately balanced. I don’t believe that the earth and its ecosystem are fragile. Many radical environmentalists do, they believe man can come along, all by themselves and change everything for worse. After hundreds of millions of years, they believe that we are the last two generations of human existence. And they think we can destroy the

  • Overpopulation and Environmental Degradation

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    Overpopulation and Environmental Degradation At the time of the agricultural revolution, nearly ten thousand years ago, the population of the globe was no more than ten million. Today the world population is estimated at over six billion. In the last hundred years the population has more than tripled. With the population rising at an enormous rate of 1.7 million a week, the world as a whole is being drained of its resources. (Southwick, 1996) Different theories have prevailed on what will occur

  • Starbucks Environmental Scan

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    Starbucks Environmental Scan Starbucks is a company in which purchases and roasts high quality whole bean coffees and sells them along with fresh, rich-brewed, Italian style espresso beverages, a variety of pastries and confections, and coffee-related accessories and equipment (starbucks.com). During my environmental scan in which took place at the Starbucks on the corner of Fair and Newport across the street from vanguard, I noticed many things in which where never brought to my attention in prior

  • Defining Environmental Philosophy

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    Defining Environmental Philosophy The Greek word 'philosophy' means literally the (filial) love of wisdom. But 'wisdom' is not a commonly used word in our society so we need to make some effort to locate its meaning. What is indicated by the tradition in which philosophy seeks wisdom rather than merely knowledge or justified belief? While Plato and Aristotle did not agree on the basis of wisdom, they clearly did agree that wisdom is acquired with age and that it transcends mere knowledge

  • Juvenile Delinquency: Genetic or Environmental

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    Juvenile Delinquency: Genetic or Environmental “Oh, well, I’ll end up in jail anyway! It’s in my genes!” This was the heartfelt declaration of a 15 year-old teen. Was it inevitable that he follow in his father’s footsteps on the path of delinquent behavior and subsequent brushes with the law? Was juvenile delinquency actually a by-product of genetics or could it be a product of “behavioral sink”- that environmental abyss that absorbs so many teens? Definition of delinquency Although

  • Ozone and Global Environmental Politics

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    Ozone and Global Environmental Politics A thin layer of gas called atmosphere surrounds the Earth. The atmosphere serves two important purposes: it is a filter for the suns dangerous ultraviolet radiation rays and keeps the heat, necessary to maintain life on earth, within the stratosphere (Vorlat 361). Ultraviolet light is incredibly dangerous to all the organisms within the Earth's ecosystem because it causes skin cancer, effects the immune system, and harms plant and animal life. For that

  • Environmental Causes of Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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    The Environmental Causes of Schizotypal Personality Disorder Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD), is considered by many as part of the schizophrenic spectrum. It is characterized by discomfort with other people, peculiar patterns of thinking and behavior, and eccentricity. These may take the form of cognitive or perceptual disturbances. Yet, unlike schizophrenia, these psychotic symptoms are not as fully developed as delusions or hallucinations but instead can be characterized as perceptual illusions

  • Disadvantages Of Electron Microscope

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    The earliest practices for examining physical evidence in crime laboratories depended merely on the microscope to study the structure and composition of matter. In the early 1950s, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) was developed and it added a new element to forensic science, which was previously unattainable within the restrictions of the ordinary light microscope. All other traditional microscopes use light coming off the specimen to produce a magnified image (Saferstein, 2011). The SEM

  • Pollen Analysis

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    quantities of pollen than species such as oak and thus have a tendency to overrepresent themselves in the pollen record. Once collected the pollen is extracted from the soil, usually in the laboratory to avoid contamination, and analysed using a light, or scanning electron microscope (SEM). The wide differentiation in the size, shape and colour of the pollen grains enables identification to be made down to genera level. Following identification, the individual exines in a sub-set of the sample are quantified

  • Microscopy Essay

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    major diseases we know today. Microscopy has helped scientists produce antibiotics and antiviral drugs to treat the diseases that once were in a world beyond our vision. There are three types of microscopy mainly used: optical (light), electron, and scanning probe microscopy. Optical microscopy includes Fluorescence, Bright field, and phase contrast. Optical or light microscopy allows magnification of an object by the passing of visible light transmitted from the sample through a single or multiple lenses

  • The Environmental Impact of Off-Shore Oil Exploration and Production

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    deep-water formations would not incur any sort of environmental damages. Several decades later, scientists learned new information from monitoring programs and research studies that offshore drilling did cause effects on the health of benthic organisms and other marine fauna in the proximity of offshore platform rigs. This paper studies the consequences of offshore platform rigs on marine organisms and wildlife from the perspectives of what causes environmental degradation offshore, the issues pertaining

  • Case-Based Environmental Ethics

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    Case-Based Environmental Ethics Cases have been widely used in medical ethics and law. In both fields, numerous books and articles about cases have appeared, including book-length catalogs of cases. I argue that pluralistic casuistry provides an adequate approach to environmental ethics. It retains the strengths while avoiding the weaknesses of the other approaches. Importantly, it resolves some broader theoretical issues and provides a clear, explicit methodology for education and praxis.