Textbook for Management 350:

The External Environment of Business: Political, Economic, Social and Regulatory

Anthony M. Pagano, University of Illinois at Chicago
and
JoAnn Verdin, Northwestern Memorial Hospital,Chicago,IL

Copyright 1995, 1997
Anthony M. Pagano and JoAnn Verdin

ISBN 0-87563-570-9

Published by
STIPES PUBLISHING L.L.C.
10-12 Chester Street
Champaign,Illinois 61820

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1------Introduction

Sources of information for external environment factors currently affecting business:

CNN

C-SPAN

News Hour with Jim Lehrer

also subscribe to our listserv ext-env-bus.uic.edu for discussion of external environment factors affecting business

Chapter 2------Theoretical Foundations: Prices, Markets, and Management

A Model of the Market System

Environmental Analysis and Forecasting

Other Sources of Information

Cato Institute
Hoover Institute
Adam Smith Institute
Economic Policy Institute

Chapter 3------The Public Sector Response and the Political System

The Structure of Government in the United States

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

White House

U.S. Courts

State and Local Government

The Public Policy Process

Proposals for Reform

The American Trucking Associations and the Motor Carrier Act of 1980

Sources of information:

All Politics

Brookings Institution

Heritage Foundation

Heartland Institute

Empower America

Chapter 4------Corporate Social Responsibility-Introduction

What Is Business Social Responsibility?

What Actions Are Socially Responsible?

Business Response and Managerial Implications

Chapter 5------Business Ethics

The Integritas Institute

What is Business Ethics?

Concepts of Ethics

Polaroid

South Africa

Chapter6-----Government Regulation of Products, Prices and The Workplace

FCC

The Consumer Movement

FDA

Occupational Safety and Health Regulation

The Benefits and Costs of Government Regulation

Alternatives to Regulation

Case Analysis: Manville Corporation

Chapter 7-----Energy and the Physical Environment

Government Policy and the Energy Crisis

Federal Environmental Policy

Benefits and Costs of Federal Environmental Policy

Chapter 8------Regulation of Markets and Competition

Federal Trade Commission

U.S. Dept. of Justice

Chapter 9-------Factors Affecting the Employer of the Future

Case Analysis: Discrimination and Texaco

Chapter 10-----Impact of New technology on the Workplace

Overall Impacts of Technological Change

Public Policy and New Technology

Case Analysis: Home Work-Mountain Climbers