Instructions for Project #2
International Business: Operations and Opportunities
Assume that you are a general manager of a U.S. global company in a particular industry. You are
going to expand your business in a foreign country. This is a fictitious business, but can be modeled
after/based on an existing business. Choose a country on List A and an industry on List B. Based on
the country and the industry selected in your study:
(i) Analyze your company’s operations for consistency with international business practices and
requirements by choosing a research topic related to only one of the following subjects:
the monetary policies, capital markets, labor market, transportation of goods, tariffs and other trading
barriers, international law, international marketing, international accounting, etc. (50 pts)
(ii) Discuss your company’s use of existing and potential opportunities created by the cultural,
political/legal, and economical environments. Discuss the business success potential and anticipated
problems. (50 pts)
Your research questions should be briefly stated in the section of “Introduction.” Discussions
should be presented in the sections following “Introduction” and corroborated by relevant facts and
reasoning. The results of your study must be highlighted in the section of “Summary and
Conclusions” at the end of the manuscript (see Zhang and Rauch, 2010).
The deadline for submitting your report is at 11:30 a.m. on December 9, 2020. Also, each group
should submit only one form of performance evaluation signed by all the members in the group.
Format Instructions
(i) The length of your report should be limited between 20 and 25 double-spaced pages.
(ii) Each page of your report should be numbered in the bottom center as: “- # -“.
(iii) Use parenthesis around the last names of the referenced author along with the published year
of the referred publication separated by commas, e.g. (Davenport and Harris, 2007; Hopkins
et al, 2010).
(iv) Follow the format of the research paper of Zhang and Rauch (2010) to write your report.