Business and Business Environment: Analysing AstraZeneca

BUSINESS AND BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Different types of organizations along with their legal structures..............................................3
SWOT Analysation of AstraZeneca............................................................................................3
PESTLE Analysation of the AstraZeneca...................................................................................4
Business functions of the AstraZeneca.......................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Business environment plays an important role in making a business successful. It is consists of
those aspects that affects the business internally and externally. Proper analysation of these
elements helps in understanding the risk. Along with this, it also helps in guiding the ways under
which risk can mitigate. This report will illustrate the different types of business organizations.
Along with this, the report also describes the business environment of the AstraZeneca UK
limited.
MAIN BODY
Different types of organizations along with their legal structures
For understanding this in brief here is the different types of organization:
Public organizations- These are those organizations that are handled by the local or central
government. The administration is accountable for allocating the fund for these firms.
Private organizations. These are the companies who have their separate structure from the
owner of the company. It is the business entity surrounded with the private ownership. These
companies involve large number of shareholders. (Chahal, Jyoti, and Wirtz, 2019). These
companies mainly focuses on performing their CSR in order to have a good image in the society.
Voluntary organizations- These are the unincorporated associations, company by a limited
guarantee and a trust. These structures are mainly used by the small businesses.
AstraZeneca firm is one of the leading firm in producing prescription medicines. The
firm has large number of shareholders contributing towards the capital of the firm. The company
is a private limited company that means has a separate legal entity from the owner. The
shareholders are the actual owners of the company.
SWOT Analysation of AstraZeneca
SWOT refers to the strength, weakness, opportunities & threats to the firm. These are the internal
factors that affects the business:
Strengths- The company is providing high level of satisfaction to the consumers therefore, the
company has a high base of consumers. Firm is getting a good return on there capital that
boosting them to produce more products for their customers. .