Simon and His Managers Are Discussing the Unemployment, Inflation, and Interest-Rate

question 56

Multiple Choice

Simon and his managers are discussing the unemployment, inflation, and interest-rate trends that might affect their chain of sandwich shops over the next 12 months and the projected growth in the areas where the stores are located. The managers are studying the ________ forces in their organization's general environment.

• A) technological
• B) sociocultural
• C) political
• D) economic
• E) international

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