INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Due date: September 30 th at 5pm Weighting: 30%

Assessment Task 2 - Article Critique

Locate and critically analyse a recent article on a topic concerning international business strategies and foreign market penetration. You will find such articles in daily newspapers as well as in more dedicated economic/business journals such as The Economist magazine. Factiva, an electronic database system available through the Australian Catholic University Library also allows you to search for newspaper articles on specific topics.

Please Note - your business article must have been published within the last six months.

Requirements

The article analysis is comprised of a written paper of no more than 1500 words. In preparing your business article critique you should:

1. Provide a brief discussion of the article and point out the three most important issues contained within the article. Do not simply summarise.

2. Point out the underlying theoretical concepts which are relevant to the article

3. Point out the related policy issues (e.g. what government policy is or should be) and debate around the issue.

4. Provide a critique if the article contains discrepancies/ ignores important policy problems or issues or is inconsistent with economic or other theories studied in this unit.

5. Harvard referencing style