research essay
1- Read Research Essay
2- Choose the subject highlighted in red, and article is attached "Balancing priorities Decision making in sustainable supply chain management"
3- Check Do's and Don'ts
4- essay is two parts, 1000 words each and must be in one documents
5- Please do not exceed 2000 words in total, 8 pages
CRITICAL EVALUATION — Don'ts
41 1. Provide a critique of the quality of the WRITING of the paper 4 2. Submit a running report of the development of the paper: " ... They do this; they do that ... 4
CRITICAL EVALUATION — Don'ts
41 1. Provide a critique of the quality of the WRITING of the paper 4 2. Submit a running report of the development of the paper: " ... They do this; they do that ... 4
Business Research Essay
There are two components to the assessment for the module: a Learning Log and
an assignment essay. The overall mark for the module will comprise 50% from each
of these components.
The Learning Log is an individual contribution and is a write-up of directed activities and
tasks that you will be set in units 3 and 8.
Marks will be awarded for correctness and completeness. It is particularly important that
you provide, where appropriate, references and citations to sources that may have been
used to inform you or to reinforce your arguments. All direct quotes or materials imported
from elsewhere are required to be suitably acknowledged. The written document should
NOT exceed 1000 words in length.
The assignment essay will be a critique of a paper published in a quality journal that
reports research that has been undertaken. You are given a choice of the paper to
critique from a list of five, taken from the main subject areas in management that you
will be studying on the MBA programme. In this, you will be required to describe the
approach and rationale in general, and to explain why this is appropriate. You will
further need to describe the background and context of the identified study and, where
appropriate, comment on the data collection method or methods used and provide a
justification of the findings.
The critique should be no longer than 1000 words in length, excluding any Reference
section you may wish to include for cited articles used to justify your comments and
conclusions, or any Appendices present, should these prove necessary.
You should select a paper to critique from the following list:
1. Dai, O. and Liu, X. (2009) Returnee entrepreneurs and firm performance in
Chinese high-technology industries, International Business Review 18, pp. 373–
386 [International Business]
2. Harris, J. and Bromiley, P. (2007) Incentives to cheat: the influence of executive
compensation and firm performance on financial misrepresentation, Organization
Science, 18, pp. 350 - 367 [Finance and Accounting]
3. Billing, Y.D. (2011) Are women in management victims of the phantom of the male
norm? Gender, Work and Organization, 18, pp. 298-317 [Human Resource
Management]
4.Elango, B., Paul, K., Kundu, S.K. and Paudel, S.K. (2010) Organizational ethics,
individual ethics, and ethical intentions in international decision-making , Journal of
Business Ethics, 94, pp. 543-561 [Business Ethics/General Management]
5.Wu, Z. and Pagell, M. (2011) Balancing priorities: Decision-making in sustainable
supply chain management, Journal of Operations Management, 29, pp. 577-
590 [Operations Management]
All papers can be accessed in Blackboard under ‘Essays to Critique’ - See Below