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Instructions for Project #2

 

International Business: Operations and Opportunities

Assume that you are a general manager of a U.S. global company in a particular industry. You are

going to expand your business in a foreign country. This is a fictitious business, but can be modeled

after/based on an existing business. Choose a country on List A and an industry on List B. Based on

the country and the industry selected in your study:

 

(i) Analyze your company’s operations for consistency with international business practices and

requirements by choosing a research topic related to only one of the following subjects:

the monetary policies, capital markets, labor market, transportation of goods, tariffs and other trading

barriers, international law, international marketing, international accounting, etc. (50 pts)

 

(ii) Discuss your company’s use of existing and potential opportunities created by the cultural,

political/legal, and economical environments. Discuss the business success potential and anticipated

problems. (50 pts)

 

Your research questions should be briefly stated in the section of “Introduction.” Discussions

should be presented in the sections following “Introduction” and corroborated by relevant facts and

reasoning. The results of your study must be highlighted in the section of “Summary and

Conclusions” at the end of the manuscript (see Zhang and Rauch, 2010).

 

The deadline for submitting your report is at 11:30 a.m. on December 9, 2020. Also, each group should submit only one form of performance evaluation signed by all the members in the group.

 

Format Instructions

(i) The length of your report should be limited between 20 and 25 double-spaced pages.

 

(ii) Each page of your report should be numbered in the bottom center as: “- # -“.

 

(iii) Use parenthesis around the last names of the referenced author along with the published year

of the referred publication separated by commas, e.g. (Davenport and Harris, 2007; Hopkins

et al, 2010).

 

(iv) Follow the format of the research paper of Zhang and Rauch (2010) to write your report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attachment

 

List A List B

Australia Agriculture

Brazil Automobiles

Canada Clothing

China Mining

France Music

Germany Technology

Greece

India

Italy

Japan

Korea

Malaysia

Mexico

Nigeria

Russia

Spain

Singapore

Thailand

Venezuela

Vietnam