The Business environment / P.M. Callaghan ... [et al.].

1. THE MARKET
Introduction
The business environment
The economic problem
The allocation of resources-alternative Systems
The free market economy, etc.

2. MARKET REALITY
The UK competitive structure
The behavior of dominant organisations
Governmental Policy on competition
The return to the Competitive market, etc

3 BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS
Introduction
Forms of business enterprise
The objectives of the Business enterprise
Unincorporated bodies
Corporate bodies, etc.

4. THE BEHAVIOR OF ORGANISATIONS
Introduction
Cost-output relationship in the short run
Cost-output relationship in the long run
Revenue-output relationship
Legal constrains on the behavior of business organisations, etc.

5. THE CONSUMER AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
Theories of individual demand
Consumer Protection
Consumer transactions
The administrative machinery of consumer protection
Summary, etc.

6. LABOUR
Labour as a factor of production
The demand for labour
The nature of the contract of employment
The supply of labour, etc.

7. LAND AND BUSINESS PROPERTY
The division of property
The scarcity of land as an available economic resource
The location of industry
Factors affecting organisational location, etc.

8. CAPITAL AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Introduction
Business finance
Central government provision of business finance
Termination of business enterprises

9. INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Introduction
The theory of international trade
The reality of world trade
UK'S Trading partners
The UK's balance of payments, etc.

10. THE STATE
The functions of government
The characteristics of the British Constitution
The Judiciary
The Legislature
Methods of Disputer Resolution ,etc.

11. GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC POLICY
The objectives of government economic policy
Policy objectives and the economic problems of the UK
Management of the economy
Case study on government budgetary policy

Includes Index: p. 534-538