Business Environment - The definition of business environment means all of the internal and external factors that affect how the company functions including employees, customers, management, supply and demand and business regulations. An example of a part of a business environment is how well customers' expectations are met.The nature of business environment is as follows:1. Complex: Business environment is compound in nature. Environment consists of a number of factors, events, conditions and influences arising from different sources which impact business thus making the business complex.2. Interdependence: The environment of the business is made of social, economic, legal, cultural, technological, and political factors. These factors of the environment are inter-dependable. The economic status of a country affects the development of technology. A rich country can make sufficient expenditure on the research and development.3. Dynamic: Business environment is constantly changing process. Business environment is dynamic as it keeps on changing in terms of technological improvement, shifts in consumer preferences or entry of new competition in the market. The various forces in the environment keep on changing from time to time thus making business dynamic and not static.4. Inter-relatedness: The different factors of business environment are co-related. For example, let us suppose that there is a change in the import-export policy with the coming of a new government. In this case, the coming of new government to power and change in the import-export policy are political and economic changes respectively. Thus, a change in one factor affects the other factor.5. Impact: Business environment has both long term and short term impact. Environment therefore has different effects on different firms in the same industry, for example, drugs.6. Uncertainty: Business environment is largely uncertain as it is very difficult to predict future happenings, especially when environment changes are taking place too frequently as in the case of information technology or fashion industries.7. Relativity: It is a relative concept since it differs from country to country and region to region. Political conditions in the USA, for example differ from those in China or Pakistan. Similarly, demand for sarees may be fairly high in India whereas it may be almost non-existent in France.