MPM735 – International Business Management

Trimester 2, 2019

Assessment 1: Individual Country Report

DUE DATE AND TIME: Week 6, 19 August, 2019, 11:59PM
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: 30%
HURDLE DETAILS: None
ASSIGNMENT TYPE: Individual

Learning Outcome Details

Unit Learning Outcome (ULO) Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO)

ULO 1: Undertake a systematic and critical evaluation of the GLO 1 – Discipline Specific Knowledge
external global business environment
GLO 4 – Critical Thinking

GLO 8 – Global Citizenship

Assessment Feedback:

Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback on
CloudDeakin within 15 working days.

Description/Requirements

Individual Country Report 2500-words (30%)

1) With your approved product/service and country, each group member needs to go away and
do research on their chosen country, and in particular look at factors that might make it
attractive/unattractive for internationalising the product/service to.

2) For each country, and with your product/service in mind you will need to investigate (read
the checklist to see what to include under each factor):
a. Economic factors
b. Political factors

Deakin's Bachelor of Commerce and MBA are internationally EPAS accredited.

Deakin Business School is accredited by AACSB.
 c. Legal issues
d. The trade and investment environment
e. Foreign exchange issues
f. Financial factors
g. Cultural factors and challenges that it might pose

3) You will need to make a recommendation about your analysed country and whether it is a
good place or not for your products/service internationalisation, and why?

4) So what makes a good quality assignment:

a. It’s based on good quality research.

b. You have good quality sources of information (business information sources such as
government reports, World Bank, International Trade Organisation, EIU, Datamonitor
etc, business databases such as Proquest, Business Source Premier, academic journal
articles, textbooks, please don’t use Wikipedia or dubious references, or no name
references from strange websites).

c. How well you use these resources support to your arguments.

d. Your information is realistic, relevant, and would be useful for a company/person

conducting international business.

e. The information is specific to the product/service chosen.

f. You have adequately referenced, and you have used the Harvard referencing system
to acknowledge your sources of information (both in-text and as a reference list at the
end).

g. Your final report doesn’t exceed 2500 words (Title page, executive summary, table of
contents, tables, graphs, appendices and your reference list are in addition to the
3000-word limit).

h. It should be in a report format. Your report should be typed, double spaced, 12-point
font, and has headings (further information on report format is provided below).

i. You have time series data where relevant, which demonstrates trends over the last 5
years or so, and if possible a forecast into the future.

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You will submit your work in the group dropbox on Cloud Deakin.
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been returned to you. In the unlikely event that one of your assignments is misplaced, you will need
to submit your backup copy.

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collusion and/or plagiarism.

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Notes

 Penalties for late submission: The following marking penalties will apply if you submit an
assessment task after the due date without an approved extension: 5% will be deducted from
available marks for each day up to five days, and work that is submitted more than five days
after the due date will not be marked. You will receive 0% for the task. 'Day' means working
day for paper submissions and calendar day for electronic submissions. The Unit Chair may
refuse to accept a late submission where it is unreasonable or impracticable to assess the task
after the due date.
 For more information about academic misconduct, special consideration, extensions, and
assessment feedback, please refer to the document Your rights and responsibilities as a
student in this Unit in the first folder next to the Unit Guide of the Resources area in the
CloudDeakin unit site.
 Building evidence of your experiences, skills and knowledge (Portfolio) - Building a portfolio
that evidences your skills, knowledge and experience will provide you with a valuable tool to
help you prepare for interviews and to showcase to potential employers. There are a number
of tools that you can use to build a portfolio. You are provided with cloud space through
OneDrive, or through the Portfolio tool in the Cloud Unit Site, but you can use any storage
repository system that you like. Remember that a Portfolio is YOUR tool. You should be able
to store your assessment work, reflections, achievements and artefacts in YOUR Portfolio.
Once you have completed this assessment piece, add it to your personal Portfolio to use and
showcase your learning later, when applying for jobs, or further studies. Curate your work by
adding meaningful tags to your artefacts that describe what the artefact represents.

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