Assessment Internactional Buisiness

Assignment Question: A local organisation is looking into expanding its business internationally. You have been hired as a consultant to help them develop an International business strategy. Your strategy must cover the following:- 1. Provide a brief overview of the chosen organisation and critically discuss which country you would recommend them to enter or trade with based on the analysis of the organisation and the target country. (800 words) (20 marks) 2. Culture is considered to influence the way international business is conducted. Discuss this by using appropriate theoretical models to explain this statement and use examples to justify your answers in relation to point one above. (1000 words) (20 marks) 3. Develop and propose a strategy map for the organisation’s international business strategy to thereby determine and ensure its readiness. The strategy map should be suited to the organisation, its industry and the environmental influence of the target country (1400 words) (40 marks) 4. Based on your analysis and the strategy map developed, critically evaluate a relevant implementation approach of the international business strategy for the organisation. As part of your recommendation, you should also include a gantt chart (800 words) (20 marks) General Guidelines: 1. Your answers to the questions should be appropriately analysed and must be grounded in appropriate academic literature and must provide clear evidence of independent critical evaluation. 2. Students exceeding the word limit will be penalised. 3. Poor presentation of your written content including spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, poor sentence structure, paragraphing and etc will be penalised 4. All assignments must be word processed – handwritten assignments will attract an automatic FAIL grade. Please use font type Times New Roman; Font size 12; line spacing 1.5. 5. Assignments will be graded on the basis of research done, analysis of the facts collated, stand taken and the justification of the stand. 6. All research must be referenced based on Harvard referencing. Improper or lack of either of these constitutes plagiarism and students will be awarded a Zero. 7. Students found copying from other students will also be charged with collusion and awarded a Zero. Assessment Requirements: • The submission of your work assessment should be organised and clearly structured in a report format. • Maximum word length allowed is 4000 words, excluding words in charts & tables and in the appendixes section of your assignment. • This assignment is worth 100% of the final assessment of the module. • Student is required to submit a type-written document in Microsoft Word format with Times New Roman font type, size 12 and line spacing 1.5. • Indicate the sources of information and literature review by including all the necessary citations and references adopting the Harvard Referencing System. • Students who have been found to have committed acts of Plagiarism are automatically considered to have failed the entire module. If found to have breached the regulation for the second time, you will be asked to leave the course. • Plagiarism involves taking someone else’s words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay banks and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very seriously.