ith reference to the e-car industry, discuss the elements that make up the external environment that it faces, and how an individual car manufacturer with a base in the UK might take these elements into account in its strategic and operations management. What should the company’s strategy be in order to continue expanding its business?
Academic English Skills Coursework 1: Source Report Name: Class: Academic English Date: 18/10/2019 Essay title or question: Title: With reference to the e-car industry, discuss the elements that make up the external environment that it faces, and how an individual car manufacturer with a base in the UK might take these elements into account in its strategic and operations management. What should the company’s strategy be in order to continue expanding its business? Plan for overall structure of essay: Plan for overall structure Introduction P1. Factors that have contributed to the need for having e-car in UK auto market. P2. Elements that make up the external environment of e-car industry. P3. The challenges that the e-car company might experience while conducting its operation in UK. P4. How an e-car manufacturer company that wants to establish its base in UK need to consider the external elements in the organization strategic and operations management. P5. The strategies that e-car manufacturing company would integrate into the organization to expands its business in the vast UK market. Conclusion Part 1: Annotated List of Sources Select TWO sources you have read and plan to use in your essay and complete the table below outlining: • why the text is useful for your essay • how you found the source. You will focus on three different sources in part 2. Include a reference in the following format: Books / chapters of books: Surname, I. & Surname, I. (Year). Title of the book. Place of Publication: Publisher Surname, I. (Year). Chapter of the book. In: I. Surname & I. Surname (Eds), Title of the book. Place of Publication: Publisher, pp. 1-18 Journal articles (print/ online) Surname, I. (Year). The Title of the Article. The Name of the Journal, 1(1), 1-18 Reports / articles online Surname, I. (Year). The Title of the Article or Report. The Name of the Organisation or website. Retrieved from url Lectures / talks Surname, I. (Year). The Title of the Lecture or Talk. TED. Retrieved from url Note that you should summarise and paraphrase key information in the text in order to demonstrate that you have understood the sources. You may use bullet points. You are not marked for your language accuracy, but you will be penalised for copying text from the source. Source 1 Type of source: Journal Article Reference Debye, Y. (2014). E-car industry analysis from the perspective of business model dynamics (Bachelor’s thesis, University of Twente). Retrieved from: https://essay.utwente.nl/65344/1/Debye_BA_MB.pdf This source is relevant because… The source is relevant since it provides the various factors in the UK market that contributed to the e-car company to decide to operate in the UK market. Through the environmental regulations in the UK market on greenhouse gas emissions and the need to reduce air pollution and depletion of fossil fuels, it has led to the UK government actively promote electric vehicles that have led to the introduction of new e-car companies in the UK. The article is also relevant since it has effectively highlighted the various external environment elements which make it difficult for an e-car company to operate in the UK auto market. External environmental elements such as policy incentives, availability of charging stations, public visibility, vehicle diversity, and consumer characteristics are some of the elements that have made it difficult for e-car companies to operate in the UK market. I found this source by… Researching on the various factors that have contributed to the need for having e-car in the UK market together with external environmental elements which have made it difficult for the flourishment of e-car companies in the UK. Type of source: Journal Article Reference Yong, T., & Park, C. (2017). A qualitative comparative analysis on factors affecting the deployment of electric vehicles. Energy Procedia, 128, 497-503. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610217339103 This source is relevant because… The source is relevant since it highlights the different ways that an e-car company, which is based in the UK, might consider the external environment elements in its strategic and operations management to ensure that it effectively conducts its operation in the UK auto market. The source highlights that through a car manufacturer that is based in the UK being able to conduct adequate market strategy and being able to solve the external environmental elements that hinder smooth operation of e-car companies in the UK market would help the company to achieve its goals and increase its market share. The article has also highlighted the different strategies that an organization can utilize towards expanding its e-car business in the UK market. I found this source by… Researching on how the external environmental elements that impact e-car operation in the UK can be integrated into the organization strategy and operations management to achieve market success. Source 2 Part 2: Source Report Complete the source report for THREE more sources you have read. Include: • The reference • How you have identified the source as suitable for academic use • Three main points from the text which are useful for your essay, including the supporting information for each idea or argument. • The section of your essay the information will be useful for – make sure each source covers a different aspect of your essay • Conclusions you have drawn from your reading Source 3 Reference: Coffman, M., Bernstein, P., & Wee, S. (2017). Electric vehicles revisited: a review of factors that affect adoption. Transport Reviews, 37(1), 79-93. Retrieved from: https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/transr/v37y2017i1p7993.html Source Evaluation Authority Who is the author / organisation? Are they qualified? Reliability Where is the text published? Is the source peer-reviewed? Objectivity Where does the information in the article come from? Are the points supported? Currency When was the text published? Are the citations and references used in the text current? Academic Conventions Are academic conventions used? There are three authors of the article who include Coffman, Bernstein and Wee and they are very qualified. The text has been published by Transport Reviews which is an international review journal organization that provide authoritative and up to date research-based reviews of transport related topics. The source is peer reviewed. The information in the article comes from a thorough research conducted in the transport industry to identify the various factors that have make it difficult for adoption of e-cars in different economies. The text was published in 2017 and there are citations and references. Yes, academic conventions are used. Which point will the information and arguments from the text be used to support or explain? The information and arguments from the text that can be used to support the claims are that it has become difficult for the UK to adopt e-cars due to the various external environment elements which have become a hindrance. For example, many people are not ready to use e-cars due to their high costs compared to cars that use gasoline; therefore, many have engaged in preferring the latter. The UK government, as an external element, has not been able to set government incentives, which will encourage the development of e-cars, therefore, making it difficult for car manufacturers to manufacture e-cars. The provision of infrastructure to be used by e-cars has also been a challenge in the UK, making it difficult for the adoption of e-cars. Relevant points from the text It has become difficult for people to integrate the use of e-cars, whereas there are cars that run on gas. Supporting evidence / example/ data in the text Supporting evidence from the text is that more than 90% of people in the UK use cars than ran in gas, and they are not yet ready to use ecars. There are no government incentives put forward by the UK government to encourage manufacturing companies to set their base in the UK to engage in manufacturing e-cars. Supporting e
vidence is that operating an e-car manufacturing company in the UK will come with increased costs to the company due to the materials, labor, capital, and infrastructure that the company would require to utilize in the process and without government incentive it would be difficult for many companies to operate in the UK market. The UK government has not been able to set adequate infrastructure that would ensure that its citizens will be able to use e-cars once they have been manufactured since there are no guidelines about public charging infrastructure. From the text, the authors have engaged in highlighting that the UK government has been tight-lipped about the construction of public charging infrastructure that would enable e-cars to use such an infrastructure since, from its research, many citizens have shown the desire to use cars that use gas. Source 4 Reference: Saebi, T., & Foss, N. J. (2015). Business models for open innovation: Matching heterogeneous open innovation strategies with business model dimensions. European Management Journal, 33(3), 201-213. Retrieved from: https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhhxmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/298636/Saebi_Business.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y Source Evaluation Authority Who is the author / organisation? Are they qualified? Reliability The authors are Saebi and Foss and they are qualified authors. The text is published in European Management Journal and it is a peer reviewed source. Where is the text published? Is the source peerreviewed? Objectivity The information come from different companies that operate in Europe and the points are Where does the supported by owners, CEOs and managers of many performing organizations in Europe. information in the article come from? Are the points supported? Currency The text was published in 2015 and there are citations and references used in the text. When was the text published? Are the citations and references used in the text current? Academic Yes, the academic conventions are used in the journal. Conventions Are academic conventions used? Which point will the information and arguments from the text be used to support or explain? The information and arguments from the text that would be used to support the topic is that the text has effectively highlighted that there is the need for any company that operates in the European market to ensure that it is able to counter all the external environment elements that it encounters to ensure that it achieves its organizational goals and attain an increased market share. Through the integration of such challenges in the organization’s operational management, it will enable the organization to engage in its daily activities of producing its goods and services. Since strategic management focuses on activities that ensure an organization attains a competitive positioning through integrating the external environment elements in strategic management, it will ensure organization success. Through the e-car company integrating innovation strategies in its operation and strategic management, it will enable her to solve and ensure mitigating the external elements that hinder its operation. Relevant points from the text There is a need for a business that finds it difficult operating in the European market due to external environment elements to engage in aligning the internal organization elements with their business model to accommodate open innovation that will ensure organization success. Supporting evidence / example/ data in the text Data in the text shows how different organizations that operate in the European market, including Apple Inc., has shown the importance of aligning the internal elements of the organization with the external elements that it experiences in its business model to be able to accommodate innovation strategies. Restructuring of the organization’s business model and being able to integrate innovation strategies in the organization strategy and operations management is fundamental to ensure that the organization integrates the external environment to achieve success. Supporting evidence provided by the authors is that when an organization that operates in the European market is able to take the external elements into account in its strategic and operations management, it often helps such organization to engage in wise decision-making process thereby supporting business functions and operations in the organization leading to the attainment of organization goals. When an organization that operates in the European market is able to consider the The authors have highlighted that when external environment elements are being integrated into strategic and operation external elements that affect its operations and integrates the same in its strategic and operational management, it often helps such an organization to achieve success in the market it is operating. management in the organization through the use of innovative strategies such an organization will be able to solve all its challenges that it experiences, leading to the attainment of organization goals. Source 5 Reference: Verbeke, A. (2013). International business strategy. Cambridge University Press. Source Evaluation Authority Who is the author / organisation? Are they qualified? Reliability Where is the text published? Is the source peerreviewed? Objectivity Where does the information in the article come from? Are the points supported? Currency When was the text published? Are the citations and references used in the text current? Academic Conventions Are academic conventions used? The author is Verbeke and a qualified author. The text has been published in Cambridge University Press. The source is a book. The information in the book comes from different performing organizations globally that have been able to expand their business processes and the points are supported. The text was published in 2013 and there is the use of citations and references in the text. Yes, academic conventions are used. Which point will the information and arguments from the text be used to support or explain? The information and argument from the text that will be used to support the essay title is that there is the need for an organization that operate in any market to engage in undertaking effective strategies such as integrating innovation, technology, cultural competency, strategic orientation, collaboration and integration of all employees in the organization process to be able to expand its business operation that will lead to organization success and increase in market share. Relevant points from the text The relevant points from the book are that when an organization is able to integrate its employees in organization process and ensures that there is the integration of new technology in business environments such undertaking will ensure that the business is able to expand its business operations since they will have the support of its employees. Supporting evidence / example/ data in the text There are supporting data in the text which have shown that there is the need for any organization that needs or wants to expand it’s business operations need to integrate its employees in the process as this will ascertain that the employees would be able to align themselves with the organization goals and objectives to achieve success. International business organizations need to ensure that they align themselves with the market needs together with integrating technology in the business process as this will help an organization to be successful when expanding its operations. The author has used examples of different organizations that operate in different markets to explain how through the integration of new technology in the business process and ensuring that the organization meets the market needs it has helped such organization to continue expanding in new markets which can also be implemented by any e-car company. The text also highlights that a company that wants to expand its business operations it needs to undertake the strategies of ensuring that it receive financial incentives, engage in diversification and effectively engaging in product developmen
t that will meet the desire of the customers. The author has provided supportive evidence by explaining that a business that looks forward to expanding its business process needs to ensure that it undertakes effective market, product, and financial strategies to ensure that it achieves adequate market share. There is the use of General Motors’ example in the text whereby the company attained financial incentives and engaged in diversification, which enables the company to expand in new markets. Conclusions drawn from your reading The conclusion that can be drawn from the readings is that there are many external environment elements that tend to impact the operation of e-car manufacturers in the UK. The readings also highlighted the contributing factors that have led to the UK to consider introducing e-cars in the economy. These external environment elements in the UK include policy incentives, availability of charging stations, public visibility naming a few. When an organization is able to integrate the external environment elements in its operation and strategic management, it will help in ensuring that such effects are reduced in the industry thereby, enabling the e-car manufacturing companies in the UK to attain market success. Adequate strategies are required by businesses that operate in an international market, as highlighted in one of the readings to ensure that it is able to expand their businesses. These strategies include ensuring the organization attains financial and production incentives, integration of technology, and employees in the organization process, diversification, and product development are some of the strategies. You will be given a tutorial following submission of the assessment. In the tutorial, you will be asked to: • • Show your tutor how you found your sources Talk your tutor through what you think are the useful parts of the sources You will also be given opportunity to: • • Ask any questions you have on the assessment Get feedback on the work you have done so far This assessment is worth 25% of your reading mark. The mark you are awarded for Evidence of Subject Knowledge may be amended based on your tutorial discussion. Factors Contributing to External Environment of E-Cars in the UK – Outline I. II. Introduction Factors that Contribute to the Need for E-Cars in the UK III. The Elements that Make up the External Environment that E-Car Industry Faces IV. Challenges that E-Car Manufacturing Company Experience in the UK V. How a Car Manufacturer in the UK Might Consider Integrating the External Environment Elements in its Strategic and Operations Management VI. The Manufacturing Company Strategy to Continue Expanding its Business VII. Conclusion Running head: EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF E-CARS IN THE UK Factors Contributing to External Environment of E-Cars in the UK Name Institution 1 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF E-CARS IN THE UK Factors Contributing to External Environment of E-Cars in the UK Introduction Electric Cars, also known as battery-electric cars, are being produced in different parts of the universe, including the Netherlands, Canada, China, the United States, the UK and Germany. Electric vehicles have been considered as automobile technology of the future, which led to the emergence of manufacturing companies that produce e-cars. Most of the UK drivers are not willing to replace their conventional combustion engine cars with e-cars, and this has become difficult for the government to ascertain its ability to tackle air pollution caused by combustion engine cars. The tra …
vidence is that operating an e-car manufacturing company in the UK will come with increased costs to the company due to the materials, labor, capital, and infrastructure that the company would require to utilize in the process and without government incentive it would be difficult for many companies to operate in the UK market. The UK government has not been able to set adequate infrastructure that would ensure that its citizens will be able to use e-cars once they have been manufactured since there are no guidelines about public charging infrastructure. From the text, the authors have engaged in highlighting that the UK government has been tight-lipped about the construction of public charging infrastructure that would enable e-cars to use such an infrastructure since, from its research, many citizens have shown the desire to use cars that use gas. Source 4 Reference: Saebi, T., & Foss, N. J. (2015). Business models for open innovation: Matching heterogeneous open innovation strategies with business model dimensions. European Management Journal, 33(3), 201-213. Retrieved from: https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhhxmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/298636/Saebi_Business.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y Source Evaluation Authority Who is the author / organisation? Are they qualified? Reliability The authors are Saebi and Foss and they are qualified authors. The text is published in European Management Journal and it is a peer reviewed source. Where is the text published? Is the source peerreviewed? Objectivity The information come from different companies that operate in Europe and the points are Where does the supported by owners, CEOs and managers of many performing organizations in Europe. information in the article come from? Are the points supported? Currency The text was published in 2015 and there are citations and references used in the text. When was the text published? Are the citations and references used in the text current? Academic Yes, the academic conventions are used in the journal. Conventions Are academic conventions used? Which point will the information and arguments from the text be used to support or explain? The information and arguments from the text that would be used to support the topic is that the text has effectively highlighted that there is the need for any company that operates in the European market to ensure that it is able to counter all the external environment elements that it encounters to ensure that it achieves its organizational goals and attain an increased market share. Through the integration of such challenges in the organization’s operational management, it will enable the organization to engage in its daily activities of producing its goods and services. Since strategic management focuses on activities that ensure an organization attains a competitive positioning through integrating the external environment elements in strategic management, it will ensure organization success. Through the e-car company integrating innovation strategies in its operation and strategic management, it will enable her to solve and ensure mitigating the external elements that hinder its operation. Relevant points from the text There is a need for a business that finds it difficult operating in the European market due to external environment elements to engage in aligning the internal organization elements with their business model to accommodate open innovation that will ensure organization success. Supporting evidence / example/ data in the text Data in the text shows how different organizations that operate in the European market, including Apple Inc., has shown the importance of aligning the internal elements of the organization with the external elements that it experiences in its business model to be able to accommodate innovation strategies. Restructuring of the organization’s business model and being able to integrate innovation strategies in the organization strategy and operations management is fundamental to ensure that the organization integrates the external environment to achieve success. Supporting evidence provided by the authors is that when an organization that operates in the European market is able to take the external elements into account in its strategic and operations management, it often helps such organization to engage in wise decision-making process thereby supporting business functions and operations in the organization leading to the attainment of organization goals. When an organization that operates in the European market is able to consider the The authors have highlighted that when external environment elements are being integrated into strategic and operation external elements that affect its operations and integrates the same in its strategic and operational management, it often helps such an organization to achieve success in the market it is operating. management in the organization through the use of innovative strategies such an organization will be able to solve all its challenges that it experiences, leading to the attainment of organization goals. Source 5 Reference: Verbeke, A. (2013). International business strategy. Cambridge University Press. Source Evaluation Authority Who is the author / organisation? Are they qualified? Reliability Where is the text published? Is the source peerreviewed? Objectivity Where does the information in the article come from? Are the points supported? Currency When was the text published? Are the citations and references used in the text current? Academic Conventions Are academic conventions used? The author is Verbeke and a qualified author. The text has been published in Cambridge University Press. The source is a book. The information in the book comes from different performing organizations globally that have been able to expand their business processes and the points are supported. The text was published in 2013 and there is the use of citations and references in the text. Yes, academic conventions are used. Which point will the information and arguments from the text be used to support or explain? The information and argument from the text that will be used to support the essay title is that there is the need for an organization that operate in any market to engage in undertaking effective strategies such as integrating innovation, technology, cultural competency, strategic orientation, collaboration and integration of all employees in the organization process to be able to expand its business operation that will lead to organization success and increase in market share. Relevant points from the text The relevant points from the book are that when an organization is able to integrate its employees in organization process and ensures that there is the integration of new technology in business environments such undertaking will ensure that the business is able to expand its business operations since they will have the support of its employees. Supporting evidence / example/ data in the text There are supporting data in the text which have shown that there is the need for any organization that needs or wants to expand it’s business operations need to integrate its employees in the process as this will ascertain that the employees would be able to align themselves with the organization goals and objectives to achieve success. International business organizations need to ensure that they align themselves with the market needs together with integrating technology in the business process as this will help an organization to be successful when expanding its operations. The author has used examples of different organizations that operate in different markets to explain how through the integration of new technology in the business process and ensuring that the organization meets the market needs it has helped such organization to continue expanding in new markets which can also be implemented by any e-car company. The text also highlights that a company that wants to expand its business operations it needs to undertake the strategies of ensuring that it receive financial incentives, engage in diversification and effectively engaging in product developmen
t that will meet the desire of the customers. The author has provided supportive evidence by explaining that a business that looks forward to expanding its business process needs to ensure that it undertakes effective market, product, and financial strategies to ensure that it achieves adequate market share. There is the use of General Motors’ example in the text whereby the company attained financial incentives and engaged in diversification, which enables the company to expand in new markets. Conclusions drawn from your reading The conclusion that can be drawn from the readings is that there are many external environment elements that tend to impact the operation of e-car manufacturers in the UK. The readings also highlighted the contributing factors that have led to the UK to consider introducing e-cars in the economy. These external environment elements in the UK include policy incentives, availability of charging stations, public visibility naming a few. When an organization is able to integrate the external environment elements in its operation and strategic management, it will help in ensuring that such effects are reduced in the industry thereby, enabling the e-car manufacturing companies in the UK to attain market success. Adequate strategies are required by businesses that operate in an international market, as highlighted in one of the readings to ensure that it is able to expand their businesses. These strategies include ensuring the organization attains financial and production incentives, integration of technology, and employees in the organization process, diversification, and product development are some of the strategies. You will be given a tutorial following submission of the assessment. In the tutorial, you will be asked to: • • Show your tutor how you found your sources Talk your tutor through what you think are the useful parts of the sources You will also be given opportunity to: • • Ask any questions you have on the assessment Get feedback on the work you have done so far This assessment is worth 25% of your reading mark. The mark you are awarded for Evidence of Subject Knowledge may be amended based on your tutorial discussion. Factors Contributing to External Environment of E-Cars in the UK – Outline I. II. Introduction Factors that Contribute to the Need for E-Cars in the UK III. The Elements that Make up the External Environment that E-Car Industry Faces IV. Challenges that E-Car Manufacturing Company Experience in the UK V. How a Car Manufacturer in the UK Might Consider Integrating the External Environment Elements in its Strategic and Operations Management VI. The Manufacturing Company Strategy to Continue Expanding its Business VII. Conclusion Running head: EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF E-CARS IN THE UK Factors Contributing to External Environment of E-Cars in the UK Name Institution 1 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF E-CARS IN THE UK Factors Contributing to External Environment of E-Cars in the UK Introduction Electric Cars, also known as battery-electric cars, are being produced in different parts of the universe, including the Netherlands, Canada, China, the United States, the UK and Germany. Electric vehicles have been considered as automobile technology of the future, which led to the emergence of manufacturing companies that produce e-cars. Most of the UK drivers are not willing to replace their conventional combustion engine cars with e-cars, and this has become difficult for the government to ascertain its ability to tackle air pollution caused by combustion engine cars. The tra …
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