You are Expected to Draw on a Minimum of FIVE (5) Peer-reviewed or Respected Journal Articles: Strategic Management Essay, SIM, Singapore

Assessment 1: Individual Written Essay

You are expected to draw on a minimum of FIVE (5) peer-reviewed or respected journal articles (e.g., Harvard Business Review) to underpin your arguments presented in this essay.

Process

1. Undertake wide-ranging reading to ensure that you have a proper grasp of the topic that you have chosen.
2. Ensure that your reading enables you to discuss the topic in detail.
3. Evaluate the literature and the research to determine what theories/models help to assess and evaluate the topic.
4. Make sure that your reading equips you to be aware of how CEOs have or can come to make sense of and strategically respond to the topic.
5. Critically evaluate the literature and the research to see what light it throws on appropriate or effective strategic responses to the topic.
6. Consider how CEOs might practically make appropriate strategic responses.

Output

The output of the process is the production of an essay in an academic style that fully addresses the issues and answers the topic. It is important that you adhere to academic conventions of citation and referencing. The following structure of your assignment is for your reference:

Contents

1. Introduction to the topic
2. Significance/ importance of the topic in strategic management
3. Issues/ problems of the topic face by strategy practitioners
4. Factors/ barriers that cause the issues/problems
5. Coherent discussion/ argument from the literature review
6. Conclusion
7. Recommendations
8. Implications for practitioners/ policymakers
9. References (at least 5 scholarly references).