The Marketing Environment
Last Revised August 1, 2007

Chapter Learning Objectives

1.

Understand importance of proactive environmental scanning.

2.

Recognize the elements of the macroenvironment.

3.

Use Engel's Law to help understand how consumer spending patterns are affected by changes in income.

4.

Discuss the forms of competition that exist in the market.

I. The Macroenvironment

A. Environmental Scanning

 

 

 

B. Elements of the External Environment

 

1. Social/Cultural

 

2. Economics:

 

3. Technological

 

4. Competitive

a. Monopoly

 

b. Oligopoly

 

c. Monopolistic Competition

 

d. Pure Cometition

 

5. Regulatory- Consumerism