Annotated Bibliography on Contextual Factors in Business Management

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Journal articles.................................................................................................................................3
Organisational structures or governance.........................................................................................3
Main contextual factor being discussed.......................................................................................3
New findings assessed.................................................................................................................4
Relevance to managers................................................................................................................4
Environmental forces.......................................................................................................................4
Main contextual factor being discussed.......................................................................................4
New findings assessed.................................................................................................................5
Relevance to managers................................................................................................................5
Risks confronting the firm...............................................................................................................5
Main contextual factor being discussed.......................................................................................5
New findings assessed.................................................................................................................6
Relevance to managers................................................................................................................6
Business practices............................................................................................................................6
Main contextual factor being discussed.......................................................................................7
New findings assessed.................................................................................................................7
Relevance to managers................................................................................................................7
Functions of diverse firms...............................................................................................................8

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Main contextual factor being discussed.......................................................................................8
New findings assessed.................................................................................................................8
Relevance to managers................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The technology has advanced greatly and in this context, it can be stated that
International trade has increased considerably and for this reason, for any business manager it
becomes important that they are able to analyze the different contextual factors as present in the
business environment which shall go a long way in ensuring that the firm is successfully able to
take the right decision for the welfare of the firm (Hill, Jones & Schilling, 2014). It is important
for the management to ensure that they are able to these factors integrate in order to consider
them. The contextual factors comprise of factors like the internal management style, workforce,
external environment factors and other related risk factors which are required to be considered by
the business (Robson, 2015). The report seeks to discuss the five different articles in relation to
the first five topics of these units. This will then be discussed in light to the relevance to the
organizational managers. The given report will be analyzing five journal articles from eminent
journals and describe their relevance and importance to the organizational manager.
Journal articles
Organisational structures or governance
Mutlu, C., Van Essen, M., Peng, M., Saleh, S., & Duran, P. (2018). Corporate Governance
in China: A Meta‐Analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 55(6), 943-979. DOI:
10.1111/joms.12331
Main contextual factor being discussed
The primary contextual factor which is being discussed in this article from the Harvard
Business Review is the Corporate Governance. The concept of corporate governance can be
stated to be the way in which the organization operates. The organization is run by a large