Here you can find the assignment requirement and the evaluation criteria.
Requirement for assignment:
- Write an academic essay on one of the following five topics:
1. What are the institutional determinants and constraints of location choice when entering into a new country: An explanation for both homogeneous and heterogeneous markets.
2. How do cultural distance and cognitive distance play a role in managing the relationship between headquarter and subsidiaries?
3. What are the potential risks of doing business in a foreign country, and how to mitigate these risks?
4. Make or buy: An analysis when organizations decide to opt for collaboration rather than acquisition.
5. How international strategies are translated in the design of foreign subsidiaries: structure, boards and management responsibilities.
1) Good structure, i.e. introduction, content, conclusion and recommendations
2) Use relevant theoretical material (i.e. peer-reviewed academic articles)
3) Show different views and argumentation of the authors
4) Summarize and compare these views in relation to the topic of your essay, and provide your own opinion in the conclusion section
5) Provide recommendations and suggestions
The essay
All essays need to be written with times new roman, 12 pts, 1.5 spaced, standard margins from page. All essays should be typed and contain a bibliography of cited sources and appropriate footnotes. All ideas, quotes and/ or statistics borrowed from another author must be cited. If you did not collect the data to support your proposition, then you need to cite the authority that did.
Students are required to submit an individual essay in which they have to answer ONE of the following questions. The essay should contain a maximum of 2,500 words. More than 2,500 words leads to a 10% reduction of the mark per 250 words. Relevant literature should be used in order to answer the question. The word count excludes tables as well as the references list. Note: Below are the titles of your essay, you are not allowed to make up your own title.
1. What are the institutional determinants and constraints of location choice when entering into a new country: An explanation for both homogeneous and heterogeneous markets.
2. How do cultural distance and cognitive distance play a role in managing the relationship between headquarter and subsidiaries?
3. What are the potential risks of doing business in a foreign country, and how to mitigate these risks?
4. Make or buy: An analysis when organizations decide to opt for collaboration rather than acquisition.
5. How international strategies are translated in the design of foreign subsidiaries: structure, boards and management responsibilities.
Included are also articles which should be used in making the report. Note that not all articles should be used. Select articles regarding the assignment topic.
Article 1 - Knowledge-sharing and social interaction within MNEs
Niels Noorderhaven and Anne-Wil Harzing
Article 2 - Foreign Entry, Cultural Barriers, and Learning
Author(s): Harry G. Barkema, John H. J. Bell and Johannes M. Pennings
Source: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Feb., 1996), pp. 151-166
Article 3 - Roles, Responsibility and accounts Across Cultures
V. Lee Hamilton
Article 4 - Building Firm-Specific Advantages in Multinational Corporations: The Role of Subsidiary Initiative
Author(s): Julian Birkinshaw, Neil Hood and Stefan Jonsson
Source: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Mar., 1998), pp. 221-241
Article 5 -Acquisitions versus Greenfield Investments: International Strategy and Management of Entry Modes
Author(s): Anne-Wil Harzing
Source: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Mar., 2002), pp. 211-227
Article 6 - The Choice between Mergers/Acquisitions and Joint Ventures: The Case of Japanese Investors in the United States
Author(s): Jean-Francois Hennart and Sabine Reddy
Source: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 1-12
Article 7 - Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior Michele J. Gelfand, Miriam Erez, and Zeynep Aycan
Article 8 - Business model innovation: it's not just about technology anymore
Henry Chesbrough
Article 9 - Globalisation, economic geography and the strategy of multinational enterprises
Peter J Buckley and Pervez N Ghauri
Article 10 - A theory of entrepreneurial opportunity identification and development
Alexander Ardichvili, Richard Cardozob, Sourav Rayc
Article 11 - Innovation and control in the multinational firm: a comparison of Political and contingency approaches
Bjorn ambos* and bodo b. Schlegelmilch
Article 12 - Large Firms in the Production of the World's Technology: An Important Case of "Non-Globalisation"
Authors(s): Pari Patel and Keith Pavitt
Source: Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1st Qtr., 1991), pp. 1-21
Article 13 - Supervising Across Borders: The Case of Multinational Hierarchies
Yue Maggie Zhou
Article 14 - Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation
David J. Teece
Articles- https://www.dropbox.com/s/pewqshz7oylv26w/Assignment.rar?dl=0
Word count: 2500