Evaluate how the state and host nation contexts shape and impact global business strategy.

You should prepare a 3,500 word essay. The essay should discuss the theories which seek to explain host national contexts. Your essay should include case study examples to illustrate and support your evaluation. For example, your essay could demonstrate how a European based organisation, with sites in 63 different nations, develops a global business strategy which accommodates the requirements of the individual nation states and environmental contexts, whilst still achieving the business mission.

The 3,500 word essay is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their critical thinking skills and a comprehensive understanding of the theories, ideas, and real world examples discussed during lectures and seminars.

The essay should develop a clearly structured argument and include an introduction and conclusion.

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• Rodrik, Dani (2013) Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography—Who needs the nation-state? Economic Geography, 89 (1): 1–20

• Agnew, John (2013) Commentary on ‘Who needs the nation-state?’ Economic Geography, 89 (1): 21–6.

• Mayer, F. W., & Phillips, N. (2017). Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’. New Political Economy, 22(2), 134-152.

• Smith, A., (2015). The state, institutional frameworks and the dynamics of capital in global production networks. Progress in Human Geography 39 (3), 290–315.

• Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2014) Governing the market in a globalizing era: developmental states, global production networks, and inter-firm dynamics in East Asia. Review of International Political Economy, 21 (1): 70–101.

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