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1. Introduction and Environmental Analysis
a. Summarize the key issues and stakeholders in the case. (150 words maximum).
b. Please summarize your stakeholder analyses in a table as shown below:
Stakeholder Interests Sources of Power
One market stakeholder is… Their interest… Their source of power…
2. Analyze the external environments (e.g. customer, competitor, economic, etc.) in which Walmart operates. How well has Wal-mart monitored these eight different environments? Be sure to give examples of how it has succeeded, or not.
3. Discuss the extent to which Christopher Stone’s arguments regarding the limits of the market apply and the limits of the law apply, or do not apply, to Wal-mart