ECON 376 – Proposal and Term Paper Guidelines

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ECON 376 Students are required to write a term paper on a topic related to Economics of Energy. The
proposal and the paper should follow the guidelines below.
I. Research Proposal
Prior to writing the paper, you need to write a short proposal. The proposal should have the following
information.
– research topic
– main question(s)
– methodology (e.g. theoretical, empirical, modeling approach, survey)
– data sources (for empirical papers)
– two main references
The proposal should be typed and not longer than two standard (8.5-11”) pages with double space lines
and font size 12.
II. Paper
TOPIC
You can work on any topic dealing with a particular aspect of Economics of Energy. The paper can be
theoretical or empirical. The theoretical paper includes a literature review or a survey on a current issue
discussed in the literature. The empirical paper can be either a survey of the literature on an issue with a
wide range of empirical results, a quantitative analysis, or an estimation of a model. The topics we cover
in class are good examples of the research topics for your term paper, but your topic should be specific
to allow you to provide a deeper coverage of the material. Here are some topics past students have
worked on:
Energy Scenarios in Saskatchewan
Oil Sands Development in Canada
Future of Crude Oil
Carbon Tax Effects on Saskatchewan Farmers
Carbon Tax Effects on Prices
Electric Car Demands in China
Energy Consumption and Economic Growth
Renewable Energies in Northern Communities
Solar or Wind Energy Developments in Ontario
Is 100 percent Renewable Achievable?
Recent Trend in Energy consumption in China
Saskatchewan’s Uranium Royalty and Implications of Change
Measuring Oil Supply Impacts of the Libyan civil war
Impacts of gasoline tax
Geothermal Energy in the Canadian Context: A Feasibility Analysis
Oil Sand: Nature’s gift or a curse to Canada?
Macroeconomic Impacts of Oil Price Shocks
Oil peak in Canada
Dutch Disease in Canada
Hydraulic Fracturing
Determinants of oil price
FORMAT
The paper must be minimum 8 and maximum 10 pages (max. 2500 words, double spaced, Times font 12,
standard margins) excluding tables, graphs, and bibliography.
ORGANIZATION
A proper organization of the paper will have the following sections:
– Introduction
o Motivation
o Main questions
o objectives
o Methodology
– Body
o Economic model
o Review of the literature
o Data description
o Results
o Analysis
– Conclusion
o Summary of the finding
o Possible shortcomings and caveats
– References
o Follow the standard format used in Economic journals, e.g. Chicago standard.
EVALUATION
The paper will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
1. Organization
2. Clarity (how well the ideas are developed and presented)
3. Originality
4. Depth and coherence of the analysis
5. Citation
Good luck.

 
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HealthCare Collaborative Working Practice Task

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Introduction: (200 words)
Provide an introduction – this should be done after you have completed all the sections to help with what
needs to be included in the introduction. Support your introduction with references
Section 1 (800 words)
In this section, you will provide an excellent, well structured discussion that displays a high level of critical
awareness and evaluation through clear identification of the strengths and weaknesses of the principles of
service user/carer involvement from a wide range of perceptive. The concepts of interprofessional working
and collaborative practice are clearly defined and differentiated and appraisal of own practice clearly
evaluated with argument of the highest quality, supported by integrated appropriate and relevant sources.
Positive and challenging aspects of service user involvement must be clearly and eloquently argued, critical
analysis and development of excellent arguments of sound academic quality supported by a very wide
range of perspectives and sources that are appropriate and relevant.
The concepts of interprofessional working and collaborative practice must be clearly defined and
differentiated with a critical and creative application to own practice is evident throughout.
1 (a). Explain and justify the principles of service user and carer involvement in the context of
interprofessional working and critically appraise how you may apply these to your practice.
(i (a)) What is concepts of interprofessional working? – support this with reference from literature
(i (b)) What concepts of collaborative practice? – support this with reference from literature
(i (c)) With concepts of interprofessional working and collaborative practice clearly defined in (i) and (ii),
now differentiate and appraise of mental hospital setting practice with clearly evaluated.
(ii) Explain with aid of references the positive aspects of having service users involved in their
care/treatment etc.
(iii) Explain with aid of references – What are the challenges?
(iv) Explain with aid of references – What does the literature suggest about Service Users involvement?
(v) Explain with aid of references – Critically appraise how healthcare worker should apply Service Users
involvement in their own practice?
1(b) Interprofessional working in Healthcare setting
(i) Explain with aid of references – What is interprofessional working and What does the literature suggest?
(ii) Explain with aid of references – What is collaborative practice and What does the literature suggest?
(iii) Explain with aid of references – How should be collaborative practice apply in practice?
(iv) Could you reflect on an incident with example of interprofessional working and collaborative practice
was observed?
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(iva) Why was it successful or a challenge? – support this with reference from literature
(ivb) What was the impact on the service or Service Users? – support this with reference from literature
(v) Finally, conclude this section with how you'll work collaboratively and interprofessionally in practice and
give 3 examples? – support this with reference from literature
Section 2 (800 words)
2. Critically analyse the factors and processes, which are often ambiguous and complex, that
facilitate effective collaboration which promotes the creation and maintenance of safe and effective
services.
Excellent critical evaluation and application of concepts which inform and impact on collaborative practice
elaborated through the critical and judicious selection of examples supported by a wide range of
perspectives and sources.
A critical approach must be used throughout that demonstrates clear understanding and outstanding
analysis of the complex and ambiguous factors and processes that affect effective collaboration
Critical analysis of strengths and weaknesses in processes affecting effective collaborative practice are
clearly defined and evidenced throughout, ambiguity and complexity are explored with excellent
argumentation. Factors are identified and critically discussed using a comprehensive range of examples
and relevant sources in relation to the maintenance of effective safe services
Critical analysis of a variety of factors and processes for collaborative practice are clearly identified and well
integrated into argument.
Critical application of theory to safe effective service delivery is supported. Discussion addresses
ambiguity and complexity using reference to appropriate examples from a variety of sources. Demonstrates
good criticality and cogent analysis.
(i) Write about what affects effective collaborative practice? Explain factors and processes that affect
effective collaboration – this needs to be discussed with factors are identified and critically discussed using
a comprehensive range of examples and relevant sources in relation to the maintenance of effective safe
services – support this with reference from literature
(ii) Critical analysis of strengths and weaknesses in processes affecting effective collaborative practice –
support this with reference from literature
(iii) What in practice have you observed? – support this with reference from literature
(iv) Poor or effective collaboration? – support this with reference from literature
(v) How is the service/Service User impacted? – support this with reference from literature
(vi) What does the literature suggest can affect effective collaborative practice? – support this with
reference from literature
(vii) Reflect upon your involvement in collaborative working in which you have worked collaborative with
another Health Care Professional or service to enhance a Service User's care or experience? – support this
with reference from literature
Section 3 (700 words)
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3. Critically evaluate the service environment to offer new insights, through engaging with practice based
situations and identify the relevance to contemporary policy drivers for collaborative practice and integrated
service delivery.
Demonstrates critical and insightful consideration and creative exploration of the strengths and weaknesses
of the service environment in terms of promoting collaborative practice. This must be soundly based on
evidence and critical use of the literature and contemporary policy.
(i) How does the environment you work in impact on your ability to collaborate with other Health Care
Professional's? Demonstrates critical and insightful consideration and creative exploration of the strengths
and weaknesses of the service environment in terms of promoting collaborative practice. – support this
with reference from literature
(ii) How could this be adapted? – support this with reference from literature
(iii) How can you overcome barriers to collaborative working? – support this with reference from literature
(iv) If you are able to collaborate effectively what is it that facilitates this? – support this with reference from
literature
(v) What does the literature suggest as to how the environment can support effective collaborative working?
– support this with reference from literature
(vi) Do you agree with the literature? Remember you can appraise the literature, so you could use the
literature to offer an alternative opinion and critically reflect using your experiences in practice.
(vii) How do policy drivers promote collaborative working? Make sure you refer to appropriate policy – will
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Global Strategy Marketing Task

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Overview
The key focus include:
 undertaking a thorough search of the literature (on the
consumption of whisky, adaption and standardisation of product,
Latvia and market entry)
 evaluating the key points from that research
 providing well evidenced justifications for both your key points and
recommendations.
Part 1 (1000 words)
This is the most theoretical part where you need to show you understand
the debate about standardisation and adaption of product.
In order to answer this you will need to know:
(i) the differences between Latvia and Scotland, particularly any
similarities or differences in culture,
(ii) but also there may be different laws or differences in the way the
product is used, which will influence whether to standardise the product
strategy or not.
You only need to discuss Latvia in terms of the product strategy here as
this country is the focus of part 2.
Part 2 (2000 words)
An in depth analysis of Latvia is required here, bearing in mind the
product.
You must discuss the Four Risk Matrix and the BERI index as possible
ways of undertaking a preliminary market screening.
As the BERI index includes subjective judgments, then as much as
possible you need to justify your scores with supporting information in
the appendices.
You must discuss Porters 5 Forces analysis to look at competition in the
industry. You will also need to know about individual competitors, both
direct ie other whisky companies and indirect ie providers of substitute
products such as wine.
You must also discuss the competitive forces with discussion on the
market share of competitors.
SWOT – A market attractiveness/ competitive strength analysis must be
used as a fine screening tool, although you do not know much about the
company, so it will not be possible to complete the competitive strength
part.
The decision on market entry could be ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘not yet’. Whichever
one you decide on needs to be fully justified based on your previous
analysis. If your answer is ‘yes’ the next step is to decide on an entry
mode. This means you have to know the advantages and disadvantages of
the various methods (Hollensen provides good summaries of these), but
you need to consider the product and target market again in order to
choose an appropriate strategy. You also need to bear in mind that the
entry mode often determines the method of distribution as well.
If your answer is ‘no’, you need to go on and suggest a possible alternative
country, based on you work in part 2 and some further limited research
eg four risk matrix. (This is to make up for the fact that you are not
doing the entry mode part of the question). You do not need to undertake
a full analysis like the one you did for Latvia.
If your answer is ‘not yet’, then we need some timescales to indicate when
you do think that it would be a good idea to attempt market entry. You
also need to propose an entry method (but the situation would need to be
monitored of course).
If your suggestion for an entry mode is one which will involve partners
you need to research who this might be and include it in your
recommendations.
Generally
You are not required to discuss the implementation of the launch of the
whisky, therefore do not include anything on the marketing mix.
Remember that you only have time for headlines and highlights in order
to stay within the word limits, but you should use the appendices for
supporting material, however these should not be used to get around the
word count.
You are expected to evaluate, from the material contained in the
appendices, what the key material is that needs to be included on the
slides and the speakers’ notes.
You will need a writing style for the speakers notes which is not too
academic (but slides and notes must be referenced), as it isn’t an essay or
report, but also not too chatty.
You may make an assumption about the type of whisky that the company
produces.
NOTE:
You should use:
5 slides for part 1 and
10 slides for part 2.
You can include 2 extra slides at the start of each part, one for the cover
slide and one for the agenda ie 19 in total, Neither of these extra slides
should have any content on them that answers the questions.
Please ensure you make it clear which speakers notes refer to which
slide.
You may make an assumptions about the whisky company, but both the
company and the marketing agency are fictious. You can use colour,
images, a logo etc on the slides to ‘live the role’.

 
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Strategic Report for Global Expansion.

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Research on contemporary issues and trends concerning global strategy.
Word limit: 3,500 words.
Everything you state must be supported in the form of a reference or a citation!
1. Through an analysis devise and sustain arguments to explain why some approaches are more or less able
to solve strategic problems.
2. Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts, such as institutions and culture, as they
affect implementation of strategies for globally active organisations.
“On the basis of the strategic analysis and market selection carried out in previous task (Strategic Planning
Report_ McKesson Corporation), select and formulate market entry strategies for your chosen markets for
the organisation you submitted, consisting of recommendations for:
a) Selection of appropriate of potential international market(s) (country selection). Select appropriate of
potential international markets by constructing a country attractiveness/competitive strength matrix for the
organisation you chose previously – Strategic Planning Report_ McKesson Corporation using country
markets of your choice (here, you should explain the criteria and information, as well as steps taken to
construct the matrix).
b) Entry-mode strategies and exit strategies for selected country market(s) (foreign market entry mode and
management).
 Develop, analyse and evaluate the organisation’s entry-modes (or operational modes) used in the new
markets.
 Assess these entry-mode (or operations mode) strategies in light the corporate objectives of your
organisation
 Analyse and evaluate how global synergies work in light of what the organisation should implement by
making considerations when selecting entry-mode strategies for the organisation in the chosen markets?
c) An organisational structure for the implementation of the above strategies (should include strategic
control system for managing the implementation of the above strategies).
 Identify and describe the corporate structure of the organisation, and how the structure used to
implement its international strategy (if available).
 What are the implications of using various entry-mode strategies for the organisational structure of the
organisation in the chosen markets?
 What kind of control challenges are foreign firms facing in the chosen markets?
 How could the organisation use information technology to support its strategic control system? Here you
must identify what kind of information could be collected, processed and presented electronically, and
what kind of systems and infrastructure would need to be in place for their entry into the chosen
markets?
d) A clear summary of the 5 year plan of the organisation in the new market(s).”
Please see attached sample previous work for support and also ensure you make use of the forms and
resources in page 3 and 13
Resources Reading list
 International Business Global Edition (e-book)
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 Exploring Corporate Strategy (e-book)
 Financial Times (online source)
 Wall Street Journal (online source)
 Harvard Business Review (online source)
Company resources:
 Official website
 Annual reports
Report Guideline – Structure
• First/cover page
• Executive summary (brief summary of your report);
• Selection of potential market (s) (underline the new markets) (700 words)
• Entry-mode strategies and exit strategies for selected country market (s) (How you will enter in the
foreign market and manage it) (1,100 words)
• An organisational structure for the implementation of the above strategies, (indicate the new
strategic control systems) (700 words)
• A clear Summary of the 5 year plan (500 words)
• Conclusion (500 words)
• References (only those used in the text);
• Appendices (only if necessary to add key information for the reader)

 
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