TY - BOOK AU - Callaghan,P.M. TI - The Business environment SN - 9780713107265 U1 - 338.7 22 PY - 1982/// CY - London PB - E. Arnold KW - Business KW - Commerce N1 - 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 ER -