Thus, organizations pursuing offshore
production interests, outsourced service laborers and overseas contract
management must immerse themselves in many settings where poverty,
instability and widespread suffering are all increasingly characteristic.
Forecasting organizational performance and opportunity under these terms is
marked by challenge.
So too is this case in navigating the uncertainties of legal policy
concerning environmental conditions. Under the Bush Administration, we
have experienced a significant decline in standard protections for both
dumping and emissions, due to the president's composition of ironically
entitled bills such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. Both of
these, in spite of their titles, were marked for their historical roll-
backs of already existent environmental protection standards. This is a
condition which impacts the decisions and costs of large organizations,
Thus, it is even more
obfuscating of future policy outcomes that now, "New York and 13 other
states have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, claiming it
violated the Clean Air Act by not toughening ozone pollution standards
enough.." (Reuters, 1) To both ends, it is evident that policy plays a
determinant role in the way that the environmental conditions are
experienced by organizations. The result is that forecasting costs of
operation and other intangibles related to market outcomes of policy
decisions is a serious challenge.
Works Cited
Butler, M. (2008). Lessons from Biofuels. Greentech. Online at
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/lessons-from-biofuels-10-768.html
Reuters. (2008). States sue EPA over ozone pollution standards. Thomson
Reuters. Online at
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2843108220080528
