The Changing Roles of National Culture Impacting China as Business Destination.
1) At minimum 10 pages, including references. 2) Double spaced 12 point font (references are to be single spaced). 3) Indent new paragraphs instead of inserting two carriage returns. 4) Use at least 10 Scholarly references (from journals, see below), and as many other references to the popular press as you like, as long as they are formatted correctly in the bibliography (see below). 5) Due the last day of class (12/2/15).
The term paper is an important part of the class, since it carries a third of the total grade. Be sure to give it the time and attention it deserves. The topic is to be “The Changing Roles of National Culture Impacting China as Business Destination.” I want you to understand that Hofstede, albeit the cultural reference point, is largely viewed as old and dusty. I want to see what you can dig up that points to how Chinese culture might be emerging as distinctive from the standard Hofstede rubric. Hence, the paper will be about what the current culture of the Chinese market is and how it impacts our ability to do business with it.
Thoughts about Your Term Paper: 1) At minimum 15 pages, including references. 2) Double spaced 12 point font (references are to be single spaced). 3) Indent new paragraphs instead of inserting two carriage returns. 4) Use at least 10 Scholarly references (from journals, see below), and as many other references to the popular press as you like, as long as they are formatted correctly in the bibliography (see below). 5) Due the last day of class (12/2/15).
The term paper is an important part of the class, since it carries a third of the total grade. Be sure to give it the time and attention it deserves. The topic is to be “The Changing Roles of National Culture Impacting China as Business Destination.” I want you to understand that Hofstede, albeit the cultural reference point, is largely viewed as old and dusty. I want to see what you can dig up that points to how Chinese culture might be emerging as distinctive from the standard Hofstede rubric. Hence, the paper will be about what the current culture of the Chinese market is and how it impacts our ability to do business with it.
As you put your paper together, be sure you follow the correct style in your use of citations and references. I have no upper limit on citations, but I expect you to use at least a full dozen proper scholarly cites (this would be references from research journals, such as Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, Journal of Global Information Technology Management and Journal of Global Information Management…each of which his accessible digitally through the UM library, and can be searched easily via the library interface online).
Guidance on the proper format in which to use citations in the paper and to list them in the bibliography (I look to each of these when I assess your paper for grading purposes), mirrors popular MIS journal formats.
Your in-text citations (where you note the source of any and all factual statements), in the body of the paper, should be in the following format:
“Internet user motivation arises from strong social gratifications (Stafford and Gonier, 2004).”
Your reference to citations in the bibliography should be in the following format:
Stafford, Thomas F., and Dennis Gonier (2004), “Gratifications for Internet Use: What Americans Like about Being Online,” Communications of the ACM, 47(1), 107-112.
Online citations are referenced thus:
Stafford, Thomas F. (2002), “Review of A. Langer’s ‘Applied E-commerce: Analysis and Engineering for E-commerce,’” Computing Reviews, http://reviews.com, current June 7, 2006.
Your format will be basic:
? A cover page with title and author information
? An abstract outlining the key points of the paper in abbreviated form
? An introduction that introduces your topic, the reason why it is important and what you intend to do with it in the context of the paper
? The body of the paper, which can use headings to introduce new key areas of discussion as they occur, as well as subheadings, if necessary, to show emphasis on specific areas of a key topic.
? A conclusion
? A bibliography. Remember, 12 scholarly citations, at least, in this. You can use Internet sources, too, but I want to see 12 journal articles referenced
Ask questions of me as they occur to you.