Haberberg and Rieple: Strategic Management
Chapter 03
Copious information on the national industry environment and their development can be found on governments’ own websites, for example in the UK, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform’s site can be found at; http://www.berr.gov.uk/sectors/index.html and http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=5748&More=N
The USA’s various Department of Commerce Census Bureau similarly produces federal statistics on a wide variety of cultural and economic issues. http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/04pch22.htm and http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/censusandstatistics/
Trans-national organizations such as the World bank the World Trade Organization, and the IMF provide copious data on developments in international trade:
OECD: http://stats.oecd.org
UN COMTRADE data base: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/comtrade/
United Nations: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/
World Bank: http://worldbank.org
World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org
For more information on Vodafone and the telecommunications industry see:
http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp;wrpsessionid=GW1BTxwbBhw3JPTP0ms1mnJx1GtJD9mm0pmmBYmb2hMQ
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/28/gartner_mobile_market_2006/
For a summary of the principles of population ecology see: http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/Scott_articles/han_free_orgec.html
For an interesting worked example of a six forces analysis see: http://www.mcafee.cc/Classes/BEM106/Papers/2005/FedEx.pdf


