Societal Environment
The strategic standpoints and strategy formulation for the Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries (WDC) can be better understood by analyzing the external environmental factors. The societal environment in essence is the environment including general forces that do not directly touch the short-run activities of the organization. These factors will however effect the long-run decisions of the company. The question that this analysis should help to answer will be: what forces are affecting the corporation? This will be followed up by the answer to the question of: what forces affect the industry which WDC is competing? After these and Task Environment factors are defined a summary of pertinent present and future threats/opportunities will follow in the form of an EFAS.