Lecture 2 External Environment

1. Lecture 2External Environment

2. The external environment of companies General environment Industrial environment company

3. The Components of a Company’s Macro-Environment MACROENVIRONMENT The Economy at Large political Technology Suppliers Substitutes COMPANY Rival Firms Buyers New Entrants Societal Values and culture Natural resource  IMMEDIATE INDUSTRY AND COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT

4. General environment • PEST • Political environment: • law, peace, • Economic environment: • development level, economic system, price, labor and etc. • GDP, interest rate, exchange rate, CPI? • Social and cultural environment: • population, value and so on • Technological environment

5. Technical development • Industrial technology • Internet

6. Social and culture • aging population • At the end of 1990’s，old ages in china is over 10%，at the middle of 2000’s, old ages may be over 30%. • 2004，average old ages rate is 10.97%, Shanghai（18.48%）,Tianjin(13.75)、Jiangsu(13.75%)、Beijing（13.66%）、Zhejiang(13.18%).

7. Natural resources • Analysis natural resources of Shanghai

8. EFE-external factors evaluation(外部因素评价矩阵） 1、key factors 2、weight for each factors (0-1)。 3、score for each factors 4、weight * score for each factors 5、added all the weighted score。

9. Industrial environment Substitute Products (of firms in other industries) Suppliers of Key Inputs Buyers Rivalry Potential New Entrants

10. Rivalry:Current competition • Number of competitorsand their relative sizes • Cost structure • The industrial development (growth rate): • Differences of products and services • Barrier of exiting

11. E.g. • Automobile industry • Beer • supermarket • Express: UPS/FEDEX/DHL /EMS/TNT

12. Strategic groups • The companies that have same strategy or similar strategy in the industry • Example:

13. Bargaining power of suppliers • Concentration of the upper stage of production chain • The difference of products of different suppliers • The menace of substitute products • The forward integration power of supplier • The importance of the company to its supplier

14. Bargaining power of buyers • The purchase volume of buyers • Standard products or not • The cost position of the product for customer • The profit level of buyers • The transferred cost of buyers • The backward integration power of buyers

15. Substitutes • The new industry • The effect to profits Examples • Eyeglasses vs. Contact Lens • Sugar vs. Artificial Sweeteners • Newspapers vs. TV vs. Internet • E-mail vs. Overnight Delivery vs “Snail mail” ( Post Office)

16. The entering and exiting barriers Entering barriers high low high risk, high profithigh risk, low profit Low risk, high profit low risk, low profit high Exiting barrier low

17. Beyond the 5-forces • Too much emphasis on adversarial “value capture”, not enough on “value creation” • Too much emphasis on competition not on cooperation • Too much emphasis on Industry, not on company’s resources and ability (Industry accounts for about 20% of total variance in ROA) • Evolution of industry structure

18. Discussion • Why does automobile industry become more competitive recently?