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Research Union Pacific Railroad. Perform an analysis of the social/demographic, technological, economic, environmental/geographic, and political/legal/governmental segments(as discussed in the textbook) to understand the general environment facing Union Pacific. Describe how Union Pacific will be affected by each of these external factors.Research Union Pacific Railroad Perform an analysis of the social/demographic, technological, economic, environmental/geographic, and political/legal/governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Union Pacific. Describe how Union Pacific will be affected by each of these external factors.

Answer 1

Answer - Union Pacific Corporation mainly operates as a rail transportation organization. The operations of Union Pacific Corporation includes the transporting the goods, for example, automotive, agricultural products, chemical products and so on. The company covers all the important routes of West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to Eastern gateways and it is also connected with the railway network of Canada and some of the important gateways of Mexico.

If we analyze the economic environment of the country it will provide us the information that as currently, the recovery period is prevailing, there will be an increase in the product demand and thus it will also result in the increased demand of transportation services. In the same period, a boom will also be witnessed by the automotive firms. The demand of the locomotives will also be significantly affected by the crude oil prices. If we look closely, the company is highly technical engines and the various parts facilitating the rapid service.

The locomotives of the company do not require a lot of repair and maintenances as these are having better efficiency and technological environment

There will be a number of restrictions on the company due to the political and legal environment. It is important for the company to execute all the policy guidelines framed by the government and thus the company has to work in a less favorable and highly conservative environment. But a number of good projects had been carried out by the firm and thus a good profit has been witnessed by the company in last five years.

The general environment in which the company is operating does not seem to be a good one and it has expectations about lesser investment and lesser return on the investment