1. Essay Requirement Write a discursive essay addressing the key issues relevant to one of the four questions below and draw a suitable conclusion. The essay should be approximately 2,000 words excluding all appendix and references. Your work should appear professionally produced in terms of the quality and currency of the data, analysis and conclusions drawn. 2. Topic Selection You are required to select and write about one of the four essay questions given below: 1): Critically assess theories of Transaction Cost Economics and Resource Based View in terms of their degree of usefulness in explaining firms internationalising strategies. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case company of your own choice. 2): Critically discuss to what extent Porters Diamond Model is/isnt a useful concept in explaining home and host location strategies of international companies? Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case company of your own choice. 3): Select at least one case company of your own choice, critically discuss your proposal regarding what the company should do strategically in the next two, five, and ten years in order to succeed in the global marketplace? With particularly focus on potential barriers and opportunities Discuss and justify your argument by making reference to international business theories/models. 4) Select at least one case company of your own choice, critically appraise any pros and cons of the companys current strategic decisions in organising their global operations and propose useful suggestions to enhance firm performance. Illustrate your answer with reference to relevant international organisational theories/models. You should present your essay professionally by following the instructions below: 1. word processed on A4 paper with a font size of 12 2. word document ONLY (no PDFs or other formats are allowed) 3. page margin of 2.5cm on both sides 4. use 2.0-line space 5. pages are numbered 6. label all charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc 7. use Harvard referencing style ONLY 8. meet the word count requirement of 2,000 (or, of no fewer than 1,600 words and no more than 2,400 words)
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