MGT 5362 – International Business
Instructions
Choose a subject relevant to International Business. You can go through the course materials / book to find a relevant subject.
Please find something that interest you!
Use at least 10 academic sources! (papers published in an academic journal; academic books).
Beware of plagiarism! And the use of AI generative materials. Your assignment shall be subjected to plagiarism and AI detector. If suspected of plagiarism and AI content generated, YOU WILL BE REPORTED TO UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC HONOR & CONDUCT AUTHORITY
The first page should be a title page + short abstract (up to 100 words) summarizing the paper.
The paper should be up to 9 pages, 1.5 lines spacing, font size 12 (excluding title page, references and figures).
Written Assignment Submission (IN CANVAS) as a word document: June 7th by 11:59 pm
The structure of the term paper. (Total points = 15)
Please follow the structure/format given below. Arrange your work in those section with respective headings. You can also have subheadings under each major section heading.
Introduction (Between 1.5 and 2 pages). 4 points
What is it? Describe the subject and position it in the context of international business.
describe in short any gap in existing knowledge / research question and explain why is it relevant and important for discussion
Describe the goals/objectives of your assignment.
Provide a brief summary of how are you going to achieve the objectives. Here provide a summary of the methodology
Provide a brief discussion of the implications/contributions
Methodology (between half to 1 page). 2 points
This is a literature review assignment. Thus, you will need to critically read how literature reviews are being conducted. Familiarize yourself with Literature Review Methodology. Sample articles will be provided for you to read and understand how this methodology is applied. Here you are expected to elaborate how you will conduct your article search, and how will you analyze them.
Results and Discussion (between 3 to 4 pages). 5 points
Discuss previous finding (preferably us a table which summarizes the findings and elaborate on those in this section):
What are the main themes emerging from the literature / main streams of research, main consensuses or differences of opinions.
Try and illustrate clusters of findings and discuss the similarities. Another way to go about it will be to illustrate a time line and show how the subject evolved over time. Of course you can think of any other (even creative) way of arranging the results and discussion. Literature review results are mainly of two types. First are those which provide desсrіptive features/information of the articles under review. The second are content based information from critical content analysis.
Conclusion (between 1.5 to 2 pages). 4 points
What can be concluded from the discussion thus far?
What should be a possible avenues for future research?