Assessment Details:
You are to form a group of 2-3 people to write your own case studies (7-9) pages and to write your own analysis (3-5) pages, in total no more than 14 pages excluding the title page and any attachments, such as figures, tables, annual reports, and references etc.
Your guiding question is -how to operate successfully in an international environment?? The first part will be a case study focusing on a strategic problem, for example, (1) -why go further? where are you going to locate your manufacture plant?? (2) How managers can assess effectively the often unfamiliar non-market environment in an international environment? (3) How do giant firms from emerging countries expand overseas? Any implication to FDI and government/industry policies? (4) How to govern a newly acquired foreign company? (5) How to divorce from a JV partner while minimizing the damage to your interests and reputation (6) how to deal with some ethical dilemmas? Note those are just examples -not an exhaustive list.
You can reference to the format of the cases in your textbook and the cases from other relevant sources such as Harvard Business Cases etc. Make sure you given enough details on the background of the firm, and focus on a challenging decision. This part should take approximately 7-9 pages. The second part will be analysis and recommendations to those managers in terms of how to proceed, which should take about 3-5 pages, at least one page should be recommendations. But keep in mind the limitations of the total pages.
Your submission should include an executive summary (about 100 words) on the title page. You should attach any relevant appendices to the written case and Source material should be correctly identified and referenced. The APA of citing references must be used.
The high scored papers will show evidence of some investigative efforts -diffing for more information, interviews/phone calls/emails/other communication methods with the firm and managers -and of synthesis and well written. They will also be insightful, going beyond the most obvious lessons to draw out from the story.