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Business in the Global Economy

Assignments

The assessments for this course aim to develop your skills in undertaking research on business in the global economy as well as develop your learning of the field. These skills will be relevant for your dissertation.

Assignment 1 (Due in 12 noon on Monday 5 February)

Literature Review Essay (40%) (1,500 words)

In this essay, you will develop skills you will use when writing the literature review chapter of your dissertation. The essay has two primary components. First, you will select one pair of articles from the options below. You can chose whichever one of the five paired articles below. Read the articles and develop an essay that examines the relationship between them. Are the scholars engaging in a debate? Does one article build on or challenge the findings of the other (and if so, how)? What are the core scholarly questions the scholars are trying to answer? What sources and methods do the authors use to answer their question?

Second, on your own, you must find a third article that advances the scholarly conversation that you select from those listed below. As with the first two articles, you should examine and explain how the article you selected relates to the first two, the sources and methods its author(s) use to engage in the debate, and the ultimate resolution (if there is one).

The best essays will develop a clear argument about the substance of the scholarly debate, which considers how the conversation has evolved over time. Students may also indicate questions that the scholarship (represented by their articles) leaves unresolved in order to highlight areas where further research is needed.

Article pairs:

1. Richard N. Langlois, ‘The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism,’ Industrial and Corporate Change 12 (2) (April 2003): 351-385; Michael G. Jacobides, ‘Industry Change through Vertical Disintegration: How and Why Markets Emerged in Mortgage Banking,’ Academy of Management Journal 48 (3) (2005): 465-498.

2. Robert C. Feenstra, ‘Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy,’ Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (4) (Fall 1998): 31-50; Allen J. Scott, ‘The Changing Global Geography of Low-Technology, Labor-Intensive Industry: Clothing, Footwear, and Furniture,’ World Development 34 (9) (2006): 1517-1536.

3. Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance (New York: Free Press, 1985), chapter 1: ‘Competitive Strategy: The Core Concepts’, available at:

https://www.albany.edu/~gs149266/Porter%20(1985)%20-%20chapter%201.pdf <viewed 13 December 2022>; Alan I. Murray, ‘A Contingency View of Porter’s “Generic Strategies”’, Academy of Management Review 13 (3) (1988), 390-400.

4. Bennett Harrison, ‘Industrial Districts: Old Wine in New Bottles?’, Regional Studies 26 (1992), 469-483; Michael Porter, ‘Clusters and the New Economics of Competition,’ Harvard Business Review 76 (November/December 1998), 77-90.

5. Melani Claire Cammett et al, A Political Economy of the Middle East (New York, NY: Routledge, 2019 [2015]), chapter 8: “Structural Adjustment and the Rise of Crony Capitalism,” pp. 273-381. Available as E-book.