Corporate entities, partnerships, and other business models operate in structures dominated by hierarchal governance (Boards), management, and worker/professional staff. Yet influences on the operating goals performance today reach global perspectives. In this chapter, we will look at those influences. They can be both positive and negative… but they cannot be ignored.
Among the understandings of how these outside influences impact a given organization is an acknowledgment of the shrinking aspect of these environments. Interconnections of commerce, the Internet, financial fluidity, and the ...