Mellahi, Frynas & Finlay: Global Strategic Management
Chapter 02
Global business environment: the external macro environment
Company home pages:
- Embraer: www.embraer.com
- International Monetary Fund: www.imf.org
- World Bank: www.worldbank.org
- World Trade Organization: www.wto.org
- Coca-Cola: www.coca-cola.com
- South African Breweries: www.sabmiller.com
- Old Mutual: www.oldmutual.com
- Anglo American Corporation: www.angloamerican.co.uk
- Sony: www.sony.com
- McDonald"s: www.mcdonalds.com
- Oracle: www.oracle.com
- DS Smith: www.dssmith.uk.com
- Mental Images: www.mentalimages.com
- Disney: www.disney.com
- Dreamworks: www.dreamworks.com
- Siebel Systems: www.siebel.com
- Wells Fargo: www.wellsfargo.com
- Citibank: www.citibank.com
- Fleet: www.fleet.com
- Lockheed Martin: www.lockheedmartin.com
World Bank
www.worldbank.org
Home page of the World Bank. It offers a great wealth of free
information including downloadable publications such as the World
Development Report and many useful statistics on countries.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
www.imf.org
Home page of the IMF, which also offers downloadable publications and country information.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
www.wto.org
Home page of the WTO
Businessballs.com
www.businessballs.com/pestanalysisfreetemplate.htm
A useful note on PEST Analysis.
University College Dublin
www.ucd.ie/economic/staff/barry/papers/sweps2.pdf
A study on the Irish software industry, which provides a useful illustration of the application of the Diamond Model.
Harvard Business School
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3782&t=globalization
Two Harvard Business School professors explain the managerial
implications of the WTO dispute involving Embraer from the Opening Case
study.


