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MANGT 220
Ch. 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| External: General Environment (Outer Layer) | economic, legal-political, sociocultural, technological, and natural environment conditions in which the organization operates |
| Economic dimension | Society as a whole |
| Legal-political dimension | Any law used for a business to run |
| Sociocultural dimension | Demographics and norms of a society or region |
| External: Task Environment (Middle Layer) | includes the people and groups with whom an organization interacts |
| Competitors, Regulators, Partners, Suppliers, Customer | People that organizations interact with outside the company |
| Internal Environment (Inside Layer) | People that organizations interact with inside the company |
| Board of Directors | Board of directors or board of trustees members are supposed to make sure an organization is well run and managed in a lawful and ethical manner. |
| Owners, Employees, Physical Environment | Other internal environment. |
| Boundary spanner | a person or role that connects an organization to people or groups outside the organization. |
| Environmental scanning | the process of monitoring outside factors that could affect an organization. |
| Information systems | combination of people, technology, data, and processes used to collect, process, store, and distribute information. |
| Innovation | Innovation is the process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice. |
| Product innovation | Product innovations result in new or improved goods or services. |
| Process innovation | Process innovations result in better ways of doing things |
| Business model innovations | Business model innovations result in ways for firms to make money |
| Social business innovations | Social business innovations finds ways to use business models to address important social problems |
| Disruptive innovations | creates products or services that become so widely used that they largely replace prior practices and competitors. |
| Reverse innovations | Reverse innovation is launched from lower organizational levels and diverse locations, including emerging markets. |
| Sustainable innovations | new products, services, processes, or business practices that create value while reducing negative environmental or social impacts and supporting long-term success. |
| Environmental uncertainty | a lack of information regarding what exists in the environment and what developments may occur. |
| Sustainable development | uses environmental resources to support societal needs today while also protecting them for future generations. |
| Triple bottom line | assesses the economic, social, and environmental performance of organizations. |
| Three P's | People, profit, planet |