The Business Environment

 The Business Environment

We are delighted by the continuing success of the book and by the many kind com-

ments we have received from the staff and students who use it. Given such a response

we have retained many of the features of previous editions as well as the general

format of the book, but have added some new material and have updated the facts

and figures since the last edition. The fifth edition now contains a new chapter on

the demographic, social and cultural context of business (Chapter 5) and the section

on globalisation has been expanded considerably. We have also made a number of

other changes to meet the very helpful comments of our reviewers.

We remain indebted to all those who have helped us over the years to develop

our understanding of the subject matter. We would like to thank the team at

Pearson Education for their continued support and advice and our colleagues at the

University, particularly Gareth Glover and Jo Webb in the library. All the help and

support we have experienced is very much appreciated.

Ian Worthington

Chris Britton

November 2005

In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material,

and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so.