In other words, music is about the regimes and its features, such as poverty or corruption. In other words, politics influences the creation of music (Burkart, 2010)
In other words, music is sensitive to the state of the economy and the distribution of music is a complex process, raising both economic as well as ethical concerns (Sean, 2000). Economic issues include for instance payment agreements and models, copyright issues or the development of new products to continually attract the customers (English)
Technological At the level of technology, this evolves continually and at a rapid pace. The impact upon the music industry is that of new opportunities to more efficiently distribute the music, but also additional challenges to keeping up with the developments (Finney and Burnard, 2009)
The music services offered by Spotify and other such similar firms is more environmentally friendly as it uses fewer traditional support material, such as compact discs, cassettes and other such. In other words, the future of online distributed music appears as flourishing and this is due to the fact that it is more eco-friendly (Grillo, 2011)
These have a high bargaining power relative to the distributors, who are in dire need of music to sell. Also, the bargaining power of the suppliers is further increased by the fact that the propagation of the internet allows artists to directly sell their music through their own websites (Illangakoon)
Environmental Finally, from an environmental standpoint, it is noted that the public places more and more emphasis on the protection of the environment. Buyers care more for products which are recyclable, reusable or which have been created with the least possible damage upon the environment (Page and Proops, 2003)
In this setting, groups and individuals would easily be tempted and able to penetrate the industry. The result is then that of numerous firms penetrating the industry and generating additional competition (Raktabutr, 2006)
"From the imposition of quotas to the generation of subsidies, states may affect whether indigenous music fails or flourishes. These interventions form part of the larger continuum, along which are mapped such issues as copyright law, education curriculum and broadcasting policy, all of which have an impact on popular music" (Shepherd, 2003)
However, because of the breadth of product offerings the company offers across the healthcare spectrum, they have been able to maintain profitability to a degree that few companies have. Since profit margins in the healthcare industry remain high (especially for pharmaceuticals (Angell, 2012)) Abbott primarily uses this type of information to plan the launch of new goods and services
For this report, gross domestic product (GDP), the consumer confidence index (CCI), and the personal consumption report (PCR) will be used as indicators to explore the Abbott Laboratories. GDP is the indicator that is most often used to determine "the market value of all goods and services produced by the economy during the period measured" (Barnes, 2012)
This is because the result of merging is that there will be an increase in fees by at least five percent. The post-merger prices are likely to increase due to various reasons (Raper, Love & Shumway, 2007)
In addition, the entry which does not occur has a high possibility of providing a weak, as well as ineffective competition. Also, other airports in major cities across the United States do not exist in large numbers for the purpose of rescuing all the consumers affected adversely by the previous mergers (Lee, 2013
The model looks at how players will make decisions which will be based on both the firms own position and resources as well as the way their competitors are or are expected to act. Game theory can therefore be used to help try and identify the optimal course of action (McEachern, 2009)
The two major earthquakes resulted to lose of lives between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and 300,000 were left homeless. Heavy burden was placed on an already struggling nation as they were to incur the cost of reconstruction and cost of relief, (Earthy Family, 2013)
Hence, the existing lesser issues between these two countries had to receive increased attention. These were like drug, migration, trade, investment, and environmental concerns (Richard Sicotte, 2009)
Bell (1999) hypothesized a model of four stages of society that have, or were believed to be emerging; the four stages were pre-history, pre-industrial, industrial, and post indusial. The prehistory stage is usually referred to as the hunter gatherer stage (Bell, 1999)
During this period there was a shift of Labor into manufacturing, and then away from manufacturing into services, even in short period between 1970-1989 there was a move from 23% of the labor force participating in manufacturing sector that the 17% (Rosenberg, 1992). By 2006 only 2% of the workforce is employed in agriculture, 13% in manufacturing, 6% in construction, and 76% within the services sector (CIA, 2013)
Hence firms are likely to produce automobiles instead of horse-drawn carriages and people are likely to become mechanics rather than black smiths. (O'Connor and Faille, 2000) How goods are produced is decided by the firms basing their decision on increased efficiency to cut costs; the 'for whom' decision is largely governed by household incomes
The periods of the two recessions shown are different; this is not unexpected as the time period over which a cycle manifests can vary. The National Bureau of Economic research has stated that the longest period of growth was between March 1991 and March 2001, lasting 120 months, whereas the longest contraction lasted 65 months between October 1873 and March 1879 (Quick MBA, 2012)
had reached $15,094 billion dollars, an increase on the 2011 figure of $14,582.4 billion (Trading Economics, 2013)