The Business Environment: A Global Perspective Ninth edition

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First published in Great Britain in 1994 (print)
Ninth edition published 2026 (print and electronic)
© Ian Worthington and Chris Britton 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003 (print)
© Ian Worthington and Chris Britton 2006, 2009 (print and electronic)
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ISBN: 978-1-292-41784-4 (print)
 978-1-292-41786-8 (PDF)
 978-1-292-41785-1 (ePub)
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for the print edition is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Worthington, Ian, 1946- author. | Britton, Chris, author. |
 Thompson, Edward, 1986- author.
Title: The business environment : a global perspective / Ian Worthington,
 Chris Britton and Ed Thompson, De Montfort University, Leicester.
Description: Ninth Edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Pearson, [2026] | Revised
 edition of The business environment, 2018. | Summary: “The business
 environment is our environment, it is the world we live in and all
 aspects of the business environment should be viewed in terms of people.
 Business ethics is about fairness in how a business operates; a business
 environmental policy is about how we pollute or preserve our own world;
 employment and unemployment are about people’s ability to house and feed
 themselves. This is a book about all of us and how we interface with the
 world and each other, because businesses are just organisations of
 people and material things” -- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2026058060 (print) | LCCN 2026058061 (ebook) | ISBN
 9781292417844 (paperback) | ISBN 9781292417868 (ebook) | ISBN
 9781292417851 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Industrial management--Great Britain. | Great
 Britain--Commerce. | European Union countries--Commerce. | Industrial
 policy--Great Britain. | Industrial policy--European Union countries. |
 International economic relations. | Business.
Classification: LCC HD70.G7 W64 2026 (print) | LCC HD70.G7 (ebook) | DDC
 658--dc23/eng/20261201
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2026058060
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2026058061
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