Write an applied research paper on international issues in strategic management.

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You must write an applied research paper on international issues in strategic management. The individual research paper must include 12 double-spaced pages with 12 pt. font and one-inch margins. A minimum of 8 sources must be discussed and referenced. All sources must be properly formatted using APA in-text citations and a reference list. Title pages, graphs / illustrations, and reference pages will not be counted towards page requirements.
To add, do please provide examples/applications of the concept(s) where applicable, do not just write a Review of the Literature, per se.

Grading Expectations.
Theory/ Model Evaluation
Advanced level of evaluation of relevant theories, models, techniques, and practice in business environment. Combines or utilizes above to address business problem in highly effective manner.
Solution Development and Problem Solving
Solution selection based on systematic analysis of evidence. Solution effective and viable in applied environment. Solution highly effective given business context.
Content Accuracy
The writing assignment contains a high level of content accuracy and extensive documented research about the topic.
Format, Grammar, and Spelling
Complies with all the requirements for assigned writing. Writer makes no errors in grammar or spelling.

Write a coherent, compellingly structured, grammatically correct essay in which you evaluate the effectiveness of the argument presented in an academic article.

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Writing 2202 650
Assignment 2: Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Length: 1000-1250 words (4-5 pages)
Format: Double spaced, in a readable 12-point font
Citation Format: MLA or APA

Value: 30% of your final grade
Purpose
Your purpose for this assignment is to write a coherent, compellingly structured, grammatically correct essay in which you evaluate the effectiveness of the argument presented in an academic article.
Overview
To complete this essay, you must select a topic for your final project and then begin to work on the research component of that project. You may choose any topic you wish, so long as it is one on which you feel you can do some sufficient research (and on which you will eventually be able to offer a compelling argument). The final assignment will require that you incorporate at least five sources in your paper, three of which must be academic in nature.
Once you have selected your topic and begun your preliminary research for the final project, you must choose one of your academic sources to focus on for this assignment. Then, you must complete a rhetorical analysis of that source, constructing an argument in which you evaluate the relative effectiveness of your chosen article.
Structure: Introduction and Thesis
Your introduction should introduce the topic (i.e., the one about which you plan also to write a research essay), summarize the article, and conclude with a thesis that is both specific (stating a viable argument about your subject) and detailed (including a forecast statement identifying the main subjects of the body of your analysis).
Remember: You will argue neither for nor against the issue being discussed; you will analyze how the writer develops the argument and determine whether the author’s argument is effective, credible, and valid. Effectively, you will argue some version of one of three positions:
1. The author develops the thesis effectively.
2. The author develops the thesis somewhat effectively: some aspects are successful, but
others are not.
3. The author does not develop the thesis effectively.
Of course, your final thesis will present a more detailed (and therefore more nuanced) position, but you will start from one of these positions.
Structure: Conclusion
Your concluding paragraph needs to be a fully developed paragraph like any other, and it should neither repeat your introduction rotely nor summarize mechanically the argument developed in your essay’s body paragraphs. Instead, it should bring the discussion to a close in some summative but interesting way.
The conclusion can allow for personal reflection on a subject (if you happen to have any personal experience involving the subject) and/or some measured editorial commentary on the positive/negative consequences of what you identify about the article’s rhetorical success or shortcomings. While such anecdotal evidence and/or personally inflected commentary is not as appropriate for body paragraphs in formal writing, it is acceptable in your conclusion. Remember, however, that your conclusion should never introduce new material that begs further development.
Remember too that even though you are very likely citing only the article under analysis, you need to include a correctly formatted “Works Cited” (MLA) or “References” (APA) page.

^this is the article I need to analyze.

Choose your weakest area and provide three suggestions for improving that dimension of EI

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Use the following three areas of emotional intelligence (EI): perceive emotions in him or herself and others, understand the meaning of these emotions and regulate his or her own emotions according to rate yourself on your ability to successfully interact with others. Choose your weakest area and provide three suggestions for improving that dimension of EI in a 1 to 2 page double spaced paper, Times New Roman 12 point font, APA format. Attached is the files of the text we are reading to refer to.

Define the term the ‘net present value’ of a customer.

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Written Questions Template

Respond to the following twenty-one (21) questions. You must answer every question. A guide to the length of your response for each question is provided next to each question.

1. Identify two (2) reasons why a business may choose to use trend analysis. (2 reasons)

2. Describe the term ‘forecasting’. (1 sentence)

3. List four (4) methods of statistical analysis that can be used to analyse market data to interpret market trends and developments. (4 methods)

4. Describe the conversion rate of leads to sales. (80 words)

5. Why is it important to measure the conversion rate of leads to sales at different times? (1 sentence)

6. Describe each of the measures of central tendency. (200 words)

7. Why is the normal distribution curve a useful statistical concept? (1 sentence)

8. Describe ‘XLSTAT’ and two (2) of its features. (1 sentence + 2 features)

9. Describe ‘SPSS Statistics’ and two (2) of its features. (1 sentence + 2 features)

10. How do you calculate the lifetime value of a customer? (1 sentence)

11. What do measures of dispersion show? Provide an example to illustrate your answer. (2 sentences)

12. Describe the ‘Delphi technique’. (180 words)

13. What is ‘Chi-square testing’? (80 words)

14. Discuss the purpose of sampling. (1 sentence)

15. Describe probability and non-probability sampling. (2 sentences)

16. Define the term the ‘net present value’ of a customer. (1 sentence)

17. Define the terms ‘correlation’ and ‘positive and negative correlation’. (2 sentences)

18. Define the term ‘causation’. (1 sentence)

19. What is ‘frequency’? (1 sentence)

20. What is a frequency chart? (1 sentence)

21. Explain the purpose of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. (1 sentence)

Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor.

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Overview
In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for the assignments, Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness and External and Internal Environments.

Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filing & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Use the Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements
Write a 6–8 page paper in which you do the following:

Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
Determine whether your choice from Question 3 in the Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies Template [DOCX] would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not quality as academic resources.

Present detailed recommendations regarding how the business should develop its approach to managing these issues and its ethical profile in the future.

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To explore the social/environmental ethical issues that ABB is facing. You are required to outline the two main ethical issues/challenges facing ABB. With reference to relevant theory and literature, you are asked to critically evaluate ABB’s approach to these issues. Based upon your analysis, you should present detailed recommendations regarding how the business should develop its approach to managing these issues and its ethical profile in the future.

Create a personal action plan for your organisation or community to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) specified.

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Addressing Global-Local Challenges in Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability

Please note Responsibility is not corporate social responsibility in this research.
The assessment question is as follows:

Drawing specifically on the exercises and topics provided each week, create a personal action plan for your organisation or community to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) specified. (4,100 words)

Include a brief abstract (up to 250 words) summarising the whole paper and table of contents Use the introduction (200 words) to give brief background about your organisation or community. This should be the organisation you work in (organisation not just sector) or the community that you are active within You must state your role within the organisation / community Make sure you include a brief conclusion (100 words) summarising the key points of your completed paper.

Organization : USAID West Bank and Gaza — my role at the organization is Project Development specialist.

Community – Palestinian people.

What ethical theory would you apply to determine whether these practices are ethical?

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Please use sources provided below

Pharmaceutical Industry

Products of Liability

Whistleblowing

  • 5 famous whistleblowers who risked everything
  • Our Successful Whistleblower Cases
  • Be sure to base your initial post and responses on course materials, and use 7th ed. APA citations in every post.
  • Write clearly and proofread; errors can lose you points.
  • Quality of posts, citations, frequency, and timeliness of posts all factor into your discussion grade. See the Participation Grading Rubric for details.

Discussion #1

  1.  When the patent on a drug expires, other drug companies are free to copy the drug and sell what is known as a generic version.  This increases competition and the price of the drug usually drops once generics enter the marketplace.  Pharmaceutical companies have developed a couple of strategies to deal with the emergence of generics.  First, there is the practice of “pay to delay” meaning the company holding the patent will pay the generic producer to delay entering the market.  This extends the period of time that the patent holder can continue to collect very high margins on their drug.  In other words, the price remains high even though the patent has expired.  Second, companies sometimes give their drug a minor tweak that extends patent protection and continues to keep prices high for that drug.  Sometimes the tweak is an extended release version or may involve combining the drug with another compound that can be as simple as calcium carbonate (the ingredient in Tums) or aspirin.  For more explanation of these practices, read https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4915805/

There have been legal, regulatory and legislative initiatives against some of these practices.  However, I am interested in purely the ethical issues.  Assume that these practices are legal.

What do you see as the ethical issues in “pay to delay” and product tweaking?

  • What ethical theory would you apply to determine whether these practices are ethical?
  • Apply the theory and explain your conclusions.

 

Write a self-reflective section on your personal leadership development plan.

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Building on the leadership development mapping tool you were introduced to in the seminars, write a self-reflective section on your personal leadership development plan.

Evaluate trends in the current global business environment for developing business opportunities and improving sustainable business operations

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1MBA 515Final Project Guidelines and RubricIn this course,you begin the task of identifying a business idea that you will fully develop throughout your MBA journey. It can be a product, service, or other concept for an existing company environment, or a totally new entrepreneurial venture. You will first choose the market domain for your idea, such as transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, or the service industry, for example. This selected domain will be your area of focus throughout the MBA program. OverviewBusiness environments are constantly changing for many reasons: competition in the marketplace, new technology, and political upheavals, for example. A prudent business manager will need to be able to first recognize and then react to these changes to ensure a company’s survival and profitability. To do this, the manager will evaluate both the internal and external factors that can either inhibit or enable a company’s assets and capabilitiesto align with market opportunities.For this project, you will choose a market domain such as transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, or the service industry. This selected domain will be your area of focus throughout the MBA program. You will research the business environment of this domain, analyzing the trends andinternal and external factors that affect businesses within this domain. Through this analysis, you will gain an appreciation of the business environment from a holistic perspective in order to foster innovation and maximize profit potential.This assessment addresses the following course outcomes:

Analyze inhibiting and enabling factors in current and historical business environments for their impact on opportunities forinnovation and change

Assess internal organizational assets and capabilities for determining competitive readiness and weaknesses in current business environments

Analyze external factors of business environments for their impact on competitive readiness and internal organizational assets

Assess intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial opportunities in the global marketplace for their viability based on organizational assets and the business environment

Evaluate trends in the current global business environment for developing business opportunities and improving sustainable business operations