Financial management and organizational theory

Assignment #4—research question, designation of study organization and annotated reference list—due to Assignments folderbyMarch 5th

Assignment Four: Basic Management Research Topic, Designation of Case and Annotated Reference List. Students will select a case[the case is a company or organization that you will apply your research question to. The paper is two pronged. For example you wish to write about innovation. You read literature about innovation and then apply what you read to a case example such a Rubbermaid, or Apple or another company known for innovation. Another example you are interested in writing about strategy/strategic planning you might wish toapply what you read about strategic planning to Walgreens as the case as depicted in Daft page 61. You are interested in environmental scanning read literature on environmental scanning then select a case/company that applies such as Wal-Mart]to be studied from the resources available in the library databases, design a research question to apply to that case and develop an annotated reference list of no fewer than five articles from peer-reviewed journals found in the library databases. Students may, in the course of further researching the case and topic,augment the peer reviewed articles with articles from other sources provided that the majority of research is conducted in peer-reviewed sources. If the student is taking UCSP 611 concurrent with MGMT 610 it is recommended that the topic of this assignment be the same as the topic for the UCSP 611 assignment. However, the annotated reference list and the final Research Paper must be for this course and submitted according to the standards established for this course.

The requirements and standards for the annotated reference list arebelow. The sample annotated reference is what your annotated references are to look like.

The annotations you will create for a research paper will becritical annotations. Each entry in your annotated reference list should include:

A citation of the source in correct APA format

An annotation that includes

the scope and purpose of the work

a brief description of the content of the source (2-3 sentences)

information explaining the authoritativeness of the author

What are his/her credentials and the quality of the research?