13 Aug “Inter-organizational relationships and today’s multinationals.”
“Inter-organizational relationships and today’s multinationals.”
1. Term paper part I (30-50%)
· Please select a company from the Fortune 500 list:
http://fortune.com/global500/list/. Please avoid selecting the same company as your neighbour.
· Use the company’s website, annual reports, and other sources as your material. The term paper is often based on secondary sources only. If you do have access to a case organization e.g. via interviews or other material, do use this opportunity. However, secondary material suffices for an excellent term paper, when well used.
· Analyse this case company’s historical evolution and strategic growth path in terms of how this firm has used (a) one kind of inter-organizational relationship (explain which one you have chosen), or (b) inter-organizational relationships to become the industry leader it is today. What kinds of choices has it made, why, how, what are the implications? Use tables and figures to support your analysis. Seek a holistic and integrative perspective to the organization. Note that you need to decide which time window (e.g. 5 or 100 years?) you use in your analysis, and argue your choice.
· Based on this analysis, reflect on what the organization is like today, what are its challenges and opportunities going forward?
· Use your readings in the module and the material from class sessions to support your analysis and reflection.
2. Term paper part II (50-70%). Based on your readings in BCPM0043 and the class sessions in BCPM0043, please provide the firm’s top management with:
· (a) An understanding of key success factors as regards one particular kind of inter-firm relationship (e.g. mergers, acquisitions, alliances, joint ventures, franchising, outsourcing, ..) that is relevant to this firm,
or
· (b) An integrative/comparative model of success factors in interorganizational relationships in general that helps the firm’s top management. For this purpose, review literature that compares the various inter-firm relationships against one another, and aim to compare their underlying theories, processes, and frameworks. What are their similarities, differences? How to develop a unifying theory of cooperation that works regardless of the kind of inter-firm relationship in question? To support you, you might also review some papers/books specific to each kind of inter-firm encounter. Your aim is to provide an overarching synthesis of cooperation in the context of inter-firm relationships, whatever their kind.
3. Conclusions and managerial recommendations to the target company.
4. Note that there are various combinations of (a) and (b) between parts I and II. You will choose your combination to match your interest and your case company situation. Whichever combination you use, please argue your case.
More important details (Term paper and lecture notes) in uploaded files
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