Being in circulation for more than two decades, ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT has witnessed lows and highs of Indian businesses. The book was a bystander to the tightly controlled business environment and has been an eye-witness to the post-reform periods. During these periods, the book has captured all the changes and developments clearly, comprehensively and objectively. No surprise, the book has gained acceptance across the country.
The seventeenth edition is comprehensive. It covers topics which have been held as game changers such as Pandemic, Make in India, Skill India, Demonetisation, Farm’s Loan Waivers, GST and many more. The book is a storehouse of data on various topics of business environment. Some of the tables are as recent as 2023/24.
Contents :
PART – A – BUSINESS AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
1. Understanding the Nature of Business
2. Environment and Strategic Management
3. Meaning and Rationale for Globalisation
4. Global Business Management
5. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
6. WTO and the Trading Blocks
PART – B – TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
7. Features, Impact and Management of Technology
8. Innovation and Design Thinking
9. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
PART – C – POLITICAL-LEGAL ENVIRONMENT
10. Political Institutions
11. The Constitution of India
12. Rationale behind State Intervention
PART – D – ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
13. Nature of Economic Environment
14. Industrial Policy
15. Industrial Licensing
16. Competition Law and Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA)
17. Companies Act, 2013
18. Public Sector Enterprises and Privatisation
19. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)
20. Industrial Labour, Sickness and Exit Policy
21. Mergers and Acquisitions
22. Infrastructure
23. Balanced Regional Development
24. Foreign Trade
25. New Economic Policy
PART – E – FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT
26. Nature of Financial Environment
27. Stock Exchanges
28. Development Banks
29. Fiscal System
PART – F – SOCIO-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
30. Culture, Dimensions and Impact
31. Demography and Human Development
32. Social Responsibility of Business
33. Business and Society
34. Social Audit
35. Business Ethics
36. Corporate Governance
PART – G –NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
37. Nature of Physical Environment and Global Warming
38. Agriculture Management
