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Resubmission of First Assignment

For those who were referred in Assignment One, you MUST now re-submit your assignment by e-mail by 20nd August 2011.

The brief is on Blackboard as follows:

Required: STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
The purpose of this task is to provide an opportunity for participants to study Strategic Alliances. The work must be INDIVIDUAL.
Critically evaluate ONE BOOK CHAPTER (or part of a chapter) AND 2 different articles on the topic of strategic alliances. One should come from Harvard Business Review, the second from a more ‘academic’ journal, such as Long Range Planning. You are looking for differing, contrasting views and research findings. For example: why so many alliances ‘fail’ or how good alliances survive despite the contract! But you can choose you own specific focus.BUT NOT, for example the whole of strategic alliances.
You need to critique your discoveries, not just summarise/describe the articles. You need to compare and contrast, so if you use 2 articles that say all the same things you are unlikely to pass.
You must (Harvard) reference correctly, NOT over-use your source material word-for-word, and not over-use internet sources.
Outputs:
Around 5 (1.5 spaced) typed sides of INDIVIDUAL work.
The work will be checked for originality – be careful to use your own words rather than cutting and pasting!
One (additional) side of your conclusions about the specific topic. NOT a repeat of sides 1-5, not just a summary.
Due date: on Monday 20nd August 2011.
MARKING CRITERIA – note these are different from May.
Appropriately tight focus on a specific topic 5%
Book chapter – quality of critique 20%
Your 2 articles critique (one HBR, one ‘academic’) 30%
Bringing together the different points of view 15%
Overall conclusion (not summary) 20%
Bibliography, Presentation, HARVARD referencing, flow and style 10%
Ted Knight19th July 2011

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You must (Harvard) reference correctly, NOT over-use…