Boston Upper Echelon Theory in International Business Research Paper

Requirements of Assignment

1. The student should select an essay topic self-interested in from the list in the syllabus. (Upper Echelon Theory)
2. The essay report should be eight pages in length, including a title page and references. It should be typed in 12-point font, Times New Roman, and double-spaced.
3. The articles review part must include citations of five peer-reviewed articles and the cited articles must be fully listed in references following the APA style.

Expectation for ASSIGNMENT

• You should present five specific pieces of evidence. Such evidence should always include citations in the text of the five (5) articles, with your analysis of the articles.
• Each paragraph in the text may focus on one specific article, and each evidence should be supported or opposed by other specific articles
• Summarizing an article is an easy way to knock off a page, but your professor knows that it requires much more mental effort to analyze the information, to synthesize opposing viewpoints, and to evaluate an argument to frame your own argument.
• Please do NOT make any recitations from the articles that you had already cited in your essay.
  • For further clarification of the statement: ‘Please do NOT make any recitations from the citations’
  • What if you want to paraphrase the following information from an article: [“When restrained to pure neoclassical reasoning, the entrepreneur is thought to maximize both utility and the value and desire to succeed. More generally, entrepreneurship is seen as innovation (Aghion & Howitt, 1998) characterized by boldness and imagination (Lumpkin & Dess, 1996), leadership (Witt, 1988) or alertness and discovery (Kirzner, 1997).”]
  • In fact, the above information was retrieved from the literature review section of Dorobat and Topan’s (2015) article: [Dorobat, C.E., & Topan, M-V. (2015). Entrepreneurship and Comparative Advantage. Journal of Entrepreneurship, 24(1), 1-16.] Those statements were originally written by Dorobat and Topan (2015) after reviewing the four cited articles. That is a very good example of what I meant: ‘Please do NOT make any recitations from the citations.’
• The topics in the list of the syllabus are mostly theories of international business and economics and management domains. As the theories already exist for a long time (mostly published before 2002), I assume that reading those conceptual papers and theories does not contribute a lot to your knowledge of international business and management. The purpose of this assignment is NOT to know who developed/conceptualized the theory (i.e. a chronicle of developing the theory).
• What I really expect from Assignment 1 (Articles review and essay writing) is to read a well-organized academic essay, which can be produced only after good reading and good research.