Mui1 what is environment

Global and European
Business Environment :

What is environment ?

Christophe Benavent
Professor – University Paris Ouest

26 avr. 2011 http://christophe-benavent.blogspot.com 1

Business environment

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Functional components
„ Customer Market -> downward markets
„ Financial resources -> macro-economics
„ Supply -> upward markets
„ Production and distribution technologies
„ Human resources
„ Legal and institutional environment
„ Environmental aspects : externalities
„ Public opinion and ethics : legitimacy
„ …

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The PESTEL model
„ Political
„ Economical
„ Sociological
„ Technological
„ Environmental
„ Legal

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General and specific
environment
Macro

Global environment Specific environment

General Task

General environment Local environment

Micro
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A system view of task
environment

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A system view of general
environment

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The 2007 crisis system

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Environment uncertainty
„ A classical organizational variable
ƒ Dynamism
ƒ Heterogeneity
ƒ Munificence
ƒ Complexity
„ Exemples :
ƒ organisations as reducing uncertainty ( buffering and
smoothing) Thomson
ƒ Contingency theory : Lawrence and lorsch
ƒ Ressources Dependence Theory : complexity and
network of stakeholder influence

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CAC 40

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Down Jones

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Environment/strategy link

„ Different views
ƒ The contingency view : adaptation view of
environment (Lawrence and Lorsch)
ƒ organizational Ecology : a determinist
environment ( Hanan and Freeman)
ƒ The enactement view : a constructed
environment (Weick)
ƒ The strategic management view : the
modeled or choice environment ( Ansoff)

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Action modalities

„ Assimilation

„ Accommodation

„ Sélection

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Rent theory

Domination Hyper-
Rentes Différentielles
par les coûts compétitivité
-économie d'échelle
-économie d'expérience
-économie d'envergure

Concurrence
Focalisation monopolistique

Rentes de monopole
-Différenciation
-Domestication

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Environment adaptation

Selection Reconfiguration
Mobility
The firm could change
Its position and choose
The environment

Accommodation Assimilation

Market power
The firm could influence,
modify, model its environment

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The grain of environment

Polymorphist
Specialist

Amplitude

Mecanist « Improvisist »

frequency
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Processus
d ’apprentissage
Extensive

Apprentissage Apprentissage
par l'échec Théorique

Apprentissage
Accidentel par imitation Intentionnel

Apprentissage Apprentissage
par l'usage expérimental

Intensif
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Boundaries and frontier
General Field
Uncertainties
Bridges

Internal field

Barriers

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Field concept of
environment and Ecology

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Trends

1. shifts in economic activity and growth between and within regions of the world;
2. increasing demand for goods and services among the very poor in emerging
markets; (Bope)
3. a faster pace and wider locus of technological innovation;
4. Increasingly global labor markets : migrations ?
5. increasingly ubiquitous and inexpensive access to information and knowledge.

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