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BUA 3345: International Business

This is a guide to library resources for the International Business course. Here you will find databases, electronic journals, tutorials, and other information.

PEST Analysis

Political Economic Social Technological

Here government regulations and legal factors are assessed in terms of their ability to affect business environment and trade markets.

Through this factor, businesses examine the economic issues that are bound to have and impact on the company. With the social factor, a business can analyze the socio-economic environment of its market via elements like customer demographics, cultural limitations, lifestyle attitude, and education How technology can either positively or negatively impact the introduction of a product or service into a marketplace is assessed here.
  • Environmental Regulations
  • Economic Growth
  • Income distribution
  • Government research spending
  • Tax policies
  • Interest rates and monetary policies
  • Demographics, population growth
  • Industry focus on technology
  • International Trade Regulations
  • Government Spending
  • Labor / social mobility
  • New inventions and development
  • Contract enforcement laws
  • Unemployment policy
  • Lifestyle changes
  • Rate of technology transfer
  • Employment laws
  • Taxation
  • Work/Career attitudes, entrepreneurial spirit
  • Life cycle of technologies
  • Government organization, attitude
  • Exchange rates
  • Education
  • Energy use and costs
  • Competition regulation
  • Inflation rates
  • Fashion, trends, Income distribution
  • (Changes in) IT usage
  • Political stability
  • Stage of the business cycle
  • Health consciousness, welfare
  • (Changes in) Internet Usage
  • Consumer Protection
  • Consumer confidence
  • Living conditions
  • (Changes in) Mobile Technology