Description
This is an annotated bibliography
Purpose
This individual written assessment is designed to assist you to develop your knowledge of management and business contexts. The secondary purpose of this assessment task is to give you the opportunity to enhance skills in research, professional responsibility, and written communication.
Task details
Your task is to compile an annotated bibliography of five recent (2014-2018) peer reviewed journal articles from the list of journals below. You cannot use articles from any other journals and you cannot use the journal articles that are on the unit Moodle site. You must include the doi for each journal article in the reference list.
Journals
- Academy of Management Journal
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Asia Pacific Journal of Management
- Australian Journal of Management
- British Journal of Management
- California Management Review
- Harvard Business Review
- International Journal of Management Reviews
- International Small Business Journal
- Journal of International Management
- Journal of International Business Studies
- Journal of Management
- Journal of Management Studies
- Journal of Small Business Management
- Management and Organization Review
- Organization Studies
- Strategic Management Journal You are required to:
1. Identify five (5) journal articles that match the first five topics of this unit. That is, you must find one journal article per topic: a. Organisational structures or governance, b. Environmental forces, c. Risks confronting the firm, d. Organisation and business practices, and e. The functions of diverse firms. You should search the library databases via the online 'advanced search' function of the CQUniversity library. By choosing the 'advanced search' function you can select the actual journal you wish to search.
2. Write a short 150 word introduction discussing why the contextual factors are important to organisational decision making. The introduction is 150 words in total not 150 words per article.
3. Write approximately 250 words a. defining the main contextual factor being discussed in the journal article, b. the new findings in relation to the contextual factor, and c. what these findings mean for managers in organisations. You should write this 250 word summary
for each of the five journal articles.
4. Write a short 200 word conclusion recommending one specific contextual factor as most important to CQUniversity's organisational performance. Explain your reasoning.
5. Write a reference list correctly formatted in the APA style. This reference list must contain all five articles as well as the doi for each article.