Essays on Pestel Framework

Introduction

This paper is an analysis of Apple’s Corporate Social responsibility and Stakeholder relations process. It will analyze the environment within which Apple discharges these activities and how it is affected by the actions of Apple in recent times. This will begin by examining the nature of Apple’s business and operations. This will culminate in the evaluation of Apple’s external environment and stakeholders. From there, the corporate social responsibility concerns of the company will be evaluated.

Nature, Structure and Products of Apple

Apple is an international technology company that has its headquarters in California. It is a major technological company in the world ...

Analysis of Strategic Options and Recommended Action

This report will analyze the strategic positioning of Comcast Corporation, an American based multinational company that offers television, cable TV and Internet services to its consumers, and come up with the best way of making the company as competitive and productive as possible. This paper will focus on the company’s internet service provision branch and analyze how well the company can do in the US market as well as on the global scale when compared to its rivals. The macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of the company’s operation will be taken into consideration during this process of analysis.

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Tata Steel UK – Port Talbot

Introduction This paper entails a critical analytical review of a business entity which operates in the United Kingdom and which has recently encountered operational difficulties that have necessitated the formulation of a solution from a strategic management stand point. The business entity which will be evaluated in this paper is Tata Steel, which has vast interests across the United Kingdom as well as in other parts of the globe. The paper will analyze the problems that the entity currently faces as well as propose viable solutions that will lead to the resolution of these operating issues going forward.

Tata Steel UK Background

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- Deriving future strategic recommendations for TESCO in the UK using the SWOT analysis and the PESTEL framework

Introduction and Explanation of the Methodology of the Paper:

The retail giant TESCO is currently facing difficulties all around its home – base in the UK (Ruddick, G. 2014a). Its share prices have been dropping, its losses are higher than even expected, an accounting scandal and leadership changes are shaking a company, which, as if this all had not been enough yet, is suffering from very low customer satisfaction rates (Ruddick, 2014). Within this paper it is intended to use as a major methodology two key tools out of classic strategic analysis, the ...