The First Two Decades of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries

The first two decades of the 20^th and 21^st centuries were similar in terms of factors that were reshaping the business environment.The most significant of these common factors were:

A) Political turbulence: in the early 20^th century the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires,in the 21^st century the ethnic and religious strife and the rise of populism
B) Technology: in the 20^th century electricity,the telephone and the automobile;in the 21^st century the internet and mobile communication
C) Popular disaffection with big business: in the 20^th century opposition to the concentration of economic power in monopolies and trusts,in the 21^st the inequality associated with the capitalist economy
D) Corporate social responsibility: in the 20^th century outrange against unsafe and unhealthy products and worker exploitation;in the 20^th century concerns over environmental irresponsibility and exploitation of third world workers.