Management and Organizational Studies 2285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sales Promotion, Huawei, Maternal Death

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2285
• Professor: Trevor Hunter

Document Summary

The political environment influence the political environment through their policies: pass laws and establish regulations implement and enforce laws and regulations. Decisions affecting the political environment are made at the: national level federal governments international level eu, un regional level provincial or state local level municipal. In different countries some levels are more or less important countries such as north korea ignore international level. Unitary systems: decision-making power is centralized in hands of central government - the regions have little or no autonomy. Federal systems: power is shared between the centre and the regions. Countries usually have institutions, backed up by coercion that make decisions that implement rules to e(cid:374)for(cid:272)e or support the so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)"s (cid:374)or(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d (cid:448)alues: Executive branch implements laws and advises on policy. Liberal democracy (less than half of 191 un members: authoritarian or absolutist (burma; saudi arabia) Liberal democracy: communist (china; cuba; vietnam; n. korea)