TY - BOOK ED - Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij. TI - The Shell global scenarios to 2025: the future business environment : trends, trade-offs and choices SN - 0881323837 (spiral) AV - HD9560.5 .S54 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - [London, England] PB - Shell International Limited KW - Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij KW - Petroleum industry and trade KW - Economic aspects KW - Business forecasting KW - Globalization N1 - "Shell global scenarios 2025." N2 - ...The new Global Scenarios explore how the forces of market incentives, community, and coercion and regulation by the State interact and impact policy and business decision-making. Three possible scenarios are identified and examined in the Shell Global Scenarios to 2025. All three scenarios see continuing globalization in the simplistic sense of the word: continuing economic growth and an increasing movement of people and ideas across the globe. Energy companies, more than most businesses, need to take a long-term view. Shell has been producing Global Scenarios for more than thirty years and now for the first time they are available to the public. These scenarios are different from forecasts in that they provide a tool that helps to explore the many complex business environments in which we work and the factors that drive changes and developments in those environments ER -