代写 BUSM 4178 assignment International Business

Issues in International Business
 
Course Description
This is an advanced course in the International Business Program, therefore you are expected to have completed the course of foundational course - International Business before doing this course.
This course focuses on the key contemporary issues/challenges facing international business. A broad spectrum of such issues will include economic, political, environmental and technological issues. You will learn and analyse how these issues affect the trend of global business, the operation of international business enterprises and their business structures, strategies and processes. This course also gives attention to the use of techniques for identifying and researching significant issues, extrapolating probable outcomes, and developing strategic responses.
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience. You will undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice; or be involved in authentic engagement with partner organisations that include industry feedback.
 
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
On successful completion of this program you will be able to:
 
1.     Critically analyse key issues and challenges in international business to inform best practice.
2.     Evaluate how key issues and challenges affect the evolution of international business and the operation of enterprises for strategic responses.
3.     Critically analyse and evaluate the role of international business in shaping the world economy for a comprehensive understanding of concerns from different stakeholders.
4.     Address practical international business issues in an informed and convincing way by applying theories and research procedures.
5.     Work effectively individually and collaboratively to communicate ideas and strategies to solve international business problems.
 
Overview of Learning Activities
A range of individual and group activities are designed to help you achieve the learning outcomes. The key learning activities in this course may include:
 
1)      Lectures:  Lecture/workshop will be run weekly with a focus on introducing and discussing various topics covered in this course.
2)     Tutorials: Weekly tutorials are offered with structured learning activities, such as question brainstorm, group discussion, oral presentation. Q&A, assistance and feedback to your assessment tasks etc. Brief training on academic skill will also be provided in tutorials.
3)     Industry-Focused Learning: The key assignment in this course is designed to help you link theories with practice in real-world contemporary international business context.
4)      Readings: This course does not have a prescribed textbook, therefore you are required to read accredited academic materials related to this course. While some readings will be recommended by academics, you are expected to search and read more academic materials (such as journal articles and books) to consolidate your understanding on the course topics and to satisfy the reference criteria of assignment(s).
5)      Assessments: Assessment tasks are closely linked to the course learning outcomes during the design. Completion of the assessments will help you achieve the learning outcomes.
 
 
Overview of Learning Resources
Learning resources consist of a set of recommended readings including book chapters, journal articles and materials from newspapers, business periodicals and the web.
 
Recommended Text Book
Johnson, D. and Turner, C (2010) ‘International Business: Themes and Issues in the Modern Global Economy’ (2nd ed.), Routledge, New York.
 
 
Recommended Reading Materials
As-Saber, S.N. (2009a) ‘Geopolitics’, In C. Wankel (ed.). Encyclopaedia of Business in Today's World, SAGE Reference project, New York, vol. 2, pp. 745-747.
As-Saber, S.N. (2009b) ‘Rediscovering the Role of Governments in the Present Era of Governance’, in As-Saber, S.N., Singh, A., Ahmad, R. And Jalal, J. (eds.), Strengthening Governance in the Asia Pacific: Myths, Realities and Paradoxes, McMillan, New Delhi, pp. 1-16.
As-Saber, S.N. & Härtel, C.E.J. (2006) ‘Geopolitics and Governance: In Search of a Framework’, Paper presented to the Annual Conference of Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG), December in Sydney, Australia.
As-Saber, S. N., Dowling, P.J. and Liesch, P.W. (2001) ‘Geopolitics and its impacts on international business: a framework for a geopolitical paradigm of international business’, School of Management, Working Paper Series, no. 21-01, University of Tasmania, Launceston.
Barron, A. (2000) ‘Lobbying’, In C. Wankel (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Business in Today's World, SAGE Reference project, New York, vol. 3, pp. 1018-1020.
Benito, G. and Welch, L. (1997) ‘De-Internationalization’. Management International Review, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 7-25.
 
Campbell, S. J. (1998) ‘Grass-roots lobbying vs. coalition lobbying: transnational strategies and the 1994 MFN decision’, International Politics, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 187-205.
Claas van der, L. Porter, M.E. (1999) ‘Green and competitive: ending the stalemate’, Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis Annual 1999: 215. General OneFile. Web. 12 July 2013
Contractor, F.J. and Narayanan, V.K. (1990) ‘Technology development in the multinational firm: a framework for planning and strategy’, R&D Management, vol 20, no 4, pp305-322.
 
Czinkota, M., Ronkainen, I. and Moffett M. (2003) ‘International Business’. Thomson South-Western, Mason Ohio
 
Friedmna, T. (2006) ‘The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century’,  California: Farrat, Straus, and Giroux.
 
Goldstein, J., Martin, L.  (2000) ‘Legalization, trade liberalization, and domestic politics: a cautionary note’, International Organization, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 603-632.
 
Johnson, D. and Turner, C (2010) ‘International Business: Themes and Issues in the Modern Global Economy’ (2nd ed.), Routledge, New York. (This is the recommended text)
 
Johnson, P. E. (1996) ‘Corporate political offices in a rent-seeking society’, Public Choice, vol. 88, no. 3/4, pp. 309-331.
 
Joyner, B.E. and Payne, D. (2002) ‘Evolution and Implementation: A Study of Values, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility’, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 297-311.
 
Jones, G. (1996) ‘The Evolution of International Business’, Routledge, New York.
 
Kobrin, S. J. (2008) ‘Globalization, Transnational Corporations and the Future of Global Governance’, Chapter 12 in Andreas Geog Scherer and Guido Palazzo (Eds.):      Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Morgenthau, H. J. (2005) Chapters 1 and 2, Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace, (7th ed) revised by Kenneth W. Thompson and W. David Clinton. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education,
Welch, L. S and Luostarinen, R (1988) ‘Internationalization: Evolution of a concept’, Journal of General Management, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 36-64
 
Welch, L. and Welch, C. (2009) ‘Re-internationalisation: exploration and conceptualisation’, International Business Review vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 567-577.
 
Recommended Academic Journals
 
代写 BUSM 4178 assignment International Business
Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
Asia-Pacific Journal of Management
Asian Business and Management
Critical Perspectives on International Business
Harvard Business Review
International Business Review
Journal of Administration & Governance
Journal of Asia-Pacific Business
Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of World Business
Management International Review
Strategic Management Journal
Thunderbird International Business Review
 
RMIT Library
 
RMIT library provides online access to a wide range of academic journals and databases. You are encouraged to utilise this resource to locate academic materials related to this course.
 
Subject guides
 
RMIT University library provides on-line subject guide for international business. This guide is a gateway for many useful international business related resources, such as books and e-books, journal articles, databases, statistics, audio-video materials etc. Make use of this useful resource will facilitate your learning. The subject guide for international business can be accessed through the following URL: http://rmit.libguides.com/content.php?pid=17488
 
Teaching schedule

Topic	Recommended Readings	Primary Focus
1.     Course overview	-	-       Introduction of the course and assessment tasks
2.     Internationalisation, Deinternatioanlisation and Reinternationalisation	Benito & Welch (1997 ); Welch & Luostarinen (1988);  Welch & Welch (2009)	-       Various trajectories of MNC’s internationalisation drives
3.     R&D and International Business Competitiveness	Contractor & Narayanan (1990)	-       R&D activities and their role in IB competitiveness
4.     Ethics and CSR in International Business	Joyner & Payne (2002); As-Saber (2009b)	-       To appraise a highly contested issue in international business
5.     Governance issues in an integrating world	Johnson & Turner (2010), Chapter 4; Kobrin (2008).	-       The changing roles of the state and global institutions in a globalising world.
6.     Geopolitics and international business	As-Saber (2009a); As-Saber & Härtel (2006). As-Saber et al., (2001); Morgenthau (2005), Chapter 1 & 2	-       The post-Cold War geopolitical order in relation to international business.
7.     Green International Business	Claas van der & Porter (1999); Johnson & Turner (2010): chapter 16	-       Appraising environmental concerns from MNCs and community perspectives -       Green Consumerism!
8.     Lobbying and International Business	Campbell (1998); Goldstein & Martin (2000);  Johnson (1996); Barron (2000)	-       To know more about the unavoidable and often invisible influence of lobbying
9.     Global Information Economy	Johnson & Turner (2010), Chapter 18; As-Saber et al. (2004)	-       Emerging issues on new waves of informational business; -       Call Centres, e-commerce?
10.  Regional/Country Studies: Emerging Economies	Johnson & Turner (2010), Chapter 6	-       The problems and prospects of international business enterprises in emerging economies
11.  Finance and International Business	Czinkota, Ronkainen, & Moffett (2003) Chapter 3 & 5	-       Impacts of international finance on IB
12.  Course review	-	-   Content summary and review

*Note: There might be changes to the delivery order. You will be duly notified in such cases.
 
Overview of Assessments
Assessment in this course aims at helping you achieve the course learning outcomes. You are expected to demonstrate the level of mastery of the subject matters and the ability to analyse and solve problems.
 
Assessment Tasks
This course comprises the following assessment tasks. You need to get not less than 50% of the total assessment value to pass this course.
1)      Oral presentations (group, 20%)
2)      Case study assignment (individual, 40%)
3)      Examination (individual, 40%)
 
 
Assessment task 2 - case study assignment
·     Assignment type: Individual
·     Value: 40%
·     Link to CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
·     Due date: before 23:00 on Friday in Week 9
 
In this assignment, you will be assessed on your research skills, your understanding of the relevant international business issues and your ability to apply them to the analysis of the challenges as well as opportunities facing an actual organization in international business context. This assignment is designed to help you achieve all the course learning outcomes.
 
 
Assignment questions
 
Choose one of the following international business issues
 
·   Governance
·   R&D
·   Ethics & CSR
 
that faces a real-life firm and answer the questions below through critical analysis
 
1)      What is the issue and how did the issue impact the firm’s international business?
2)      What did the firm do to address the issue? Are they effective and why?
3)      If you are given the responsibility of managing the firm, what additional actions that you will   be undertaking to further address the issue? Why?
4)      What are the comments towards your analysis and recommendation from an industry person (a person works in international business field)? How did you reflect them in your assignment?
 
 
Format
The final write-up should be presented with the following sections:
¨      Title page (title of your report, your name, student number and word count)
¨      Introduction
¨      Your response to Question 1 (make your own heading for this section)
¨      Your response to Question 2 (make your own heading for this section)
¨      Your response to Question 3 (make your own heading for this section)
¨      Your response to Question 4 (make your own heading for this section)
¨      Conclusion
¨      Reference List
 
Guidelines:
1.         Given the analytical nature of this assignment, being descriptive is not appropriate for this assignment. Make it critical!
2.         Keep the Introduction and Conclusion short (maximum 150 words each).
3.         The length of your responses to each of the four questions should be approximately equally arranged (20% variation allowed).
4.         Total length of the assignment is limited to 2500 words excluding references (10% more or less is allowed).
 
Presentation requirements
·      High standard of presentation
·      The clarity of expressions
·      The use of other’s information (such as comments, data etc.) from any sources (books, journals, newspapers, web etc.) must be acknowledged using Harvard referencing style.
·      At least 8(eight) academic references must be used along with other non-academic references such as articles from periodicals, newspapers and web pages.
·      Use appropriate pagination,12 point font in Times New Roman should be used throughout. 1.5-spacing with appropriate margins on all sides (at least 2 cm) need to be maintained.
 
Assessment Criteria
·          Level of mastery of the subject matters
·          Quality of analysis and justification
·          Reflection of comments from industry people
·          Academic writing clarity, logic and skills
·          Quality, relevance and sufficiency of references
·          Format
·                    Presentation
 
Feedback:
You will receive feedback to your work through:
1.      written feedback by a marking form or in-text comments
2.      oral feedback/assistance in tutorials
 
 
Submission of written assignment
The written assignment must be submitted electronically to the Blackboard of this course. A signed Assignment Cover Sheet must be submitted together with your works. Any late assignment, unless granted an extension by the course coordinator, will be penalised at 10% of the assessment weighting for each day after the due date. No assignment will be accepted more than seven calendar days late without Special Consideration (see Extension of time for assignment submission below).
 
Important Information about electronic submission
1) Multiple submissions (up to 2 times) to the Blackboard are allowed. However, only the latest submission will be assessed. You are encouraged to check your work thoroughly and make only one submission. 
2) Your work submitted to the Blackboard will be checked by Turnitin.
3) The Blackboard system might not be able to process your submission in the case of large volume of submissions at the same time (for example: when a large number of students submit their assignments just right before the due time). Therefore, you need to allow yourself sufficient time to submit your work. 
 
About Turnitin
Turnitin will check your assignment for originality and will generate a report indicating areas in which the content overlaps with other resources. Therefore you need to make sure that your write-up is your own work and never do ‘copy and paste’. When you use others’ idea in your essay, you should try to paraphrase it thoroughly and acknowledge the sources by proper citation (in-text) and in the reference list (end-of-text).
 
 代写 BUSM 4178 assignment International Business