Reference no: EM132325195
Assessment - Literature Review
This individual written assessment is designed to:
help you develop your independent research and critical analysis skills related to innovation in organisations.
The objective is to enhance your knowledge of strategic innovation through the application of themes/theories on real-life corporate examples.
It provides you with the opportunity to develop professional report writing skills in an organizational context by providing solutions and recommendations that address strategic challenges related to innovation.
This is an individual assignment. You are expected to write a literature review to address one of the following questions (Max 4000 words excluding appendices and references).
Make sure you critically evaluate one of the below statements with some real-life corporate examples.
1) Explain the diffusion model of new product acceptance and how it can affect an organization performance?
2) What is the importance of collaboration and Networking for strategic innovation? How it can affect an organization performance?
3) What is the role of emerging opportunities for innovation and how they can affect organization performance?
4) What are the constraints of strategic innovation and how they can affect organization performance?
5) What are the drivers of globalization and how they can affect strategic innovation?
1. Introduction:
Make sure you clearly outlines the appended below sections of your Introduction part. This is important as each section of your Introduction will be assessed according to the weight (marks) assigned to that specific section.
1. Background of the study
2. Purpose of the study
3. Structure of your literature review
2. body:
1) Defining key terms, theories and concepts relevant to the topic
2) Clear explanation of the themes and theories
3) Application of the themes/theories on real-life corporate examples
4) Demonstrates a high level of quality research by critically evaluating the literature utilising 15 latest academic sources (journal articles year 2005 and onwards), plus 4-5 reputable and reliable non-academic sources to identify real-life corporate examples
3. Conclusion:
- Clear and concise summary of the argument developed in the body part of the essay.
- No need to introduce new material but highlight some implications and future research directions.
- No need to use in-text citations in your conclusion section.
Step 4
4. Presentation:
Demonstrates high quality of professional manner (such as high quality of expression, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and proofreading).
Make sure you use the recommended format/style (i.e. 1.5 line spacing, 12-size font, Times New Roman).
Step 5
5. References:
Correct use of APA (American Psychological Association) reference style in in-text and end-text (in the reference list - include the doi for each journal article in the reference list).
It has a hanging indentation