You gain a deeper understanding of the nature, issues, impact and implications of the topic in the strategic management discipline: MBA, Assignment, SMU, Singapore

The purpose of this assignment is to help you gain a deeper understanding of the nature, issues, impact and implications of the topic in the strategic management discipline. 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.

Essay Topic Choices: (Choose only 1 topic)

Topic 1:

Compliance with the UN SDGs through a firms’ ESG strategy is a way to differentiate itself in an industrial sector.  Discuss the strategic opportunities and strategic challenges for your chosen firm in embracing these challenges.

Topic 2:

Firms that adopt an effective digitization strategy that encompasses the positive potential of Web3 technology capabilities is a way to differentiate itself in an industrial sector. Discuss the strategic opportunities and strategic challenges for your chosen firm in embracing these challenges.

The following structure of your assignment is for your reference:

1. Introduction of 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 literature review
6. Conclusion
7. Recommendations
8. Implications for practitioners/ policy makers
9. References (at least 5 scholarly references).

Students may use his own creativity to add or change the contents of the essay as proposed.