Front Cover -- Understanding Business: Environments -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and diagrams -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Concept of the Business Environment -- 1. Globalisation: Anthony Giddens -- 2. Identifying environmental issues: Rosalind Armson, John Martin, Susan Carr, Roger Spear and Tony Walsh -- 3. The traditions of thought in the study of economy and society: David Coates -- Section 1: The Economy -- 4. Conservative governments and the economy, 1979-97: Stephen Wilks -- 5. Finance unbound: Will Hutton -- 6. The management of the UK economy: David Coates -- 7. A marxist reading of the UK economy and its management: David Coates -- 8. Living without borders: Dipak K. Rastogi -- 9. Global cooperation or rival trade blocs?: Gerd Junne -- Section 2: Society -- 10. The structure of society: Stuart Hall -- 11. Social trends since World War II: A.h. Halsey -- 12. Changing social divisions: class gender and race: Harriet Bradley -- 13. Why inequality doesn't work: Will Hutton -- 14. A new international division of labour?: Peter Braham -- 15. Culture and management: Rosalind Armson, John Martin, Susan Carr, Roger Spear and Tony Walsh -- Section 3: The State -- 16. An overview of the English legal system: Carol Howells -- 17. Power and the state: David Coates -- 18. Putting the advanced capitalist state in perspective: Anthony Mcgrew -- 19. Government-business relations in Japan and Korea: Min Chen -- 20. Business routes of influence in Brussels: exploring the choice of direct representation: Robert J. Bennett -- 21. Globalization and the advanced capitalist state: Anthony Mcgrew -- Section 4: The System? Technology, Ecology and Globalisation -- 22. Creating the corporate future: Russell L. Ackoff -- 23. Daniel Bell and the information society: Hugh Mackay, Nick Heap and Ray Thomas.

24. Global information infrastructure: eliminating the distance barrier: Heather E. Hudson -- 25. Globalization, new production concepts and income distribution: A.J.C. Manders And Y.S. Brenner -- 26. A road map for natural capitalism: Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, and Paul Hawken -- 27. Reflections on the politics linking science, environment and innovation: Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen -- Index.