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External analysis – political and legal factors
PEST analysis
1.1 PEST analysis
In order to fully understand an organisation, we need to fully examine the
environment that it operates in.
This analysis should include the following factors:
Political/legal
factors
Economic PEST Technological
factors analysis factors
Social/
demographic
factors
The same categorisation of environmental factors is sometimes referred to as
PESTLE analysis – political, economic, social, technical, legal and ecological/
environmental.
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