1.       Students will select an American company that operates overseas. The student will propose to the instructor (during the first week) two American Companies (including one overseas location for each company) for the instructor to approve one company (and the selected overseas location) for the student to do research on these company and their overseas location. The student will research how the main corporation operates and how it globally manages the selected overseas location.

2.       Students will prepare a 12- to 15- page research paper (page count is not including title page, abstract, list of figures/tables or references pages).

3.       Per University requirements, all written work needs to be done in APA format (6th edition, as noted in the syllabus). The paper will be doubled-spaced, APA formatted, and free of grammatical/proofing errors.

4.       Each student will provide at least 15 references for their paper on the given selected topic that derive from academically approved resources. These may be either from peer-reviewed journals, company (business/industry) publications, and governmental publications. However, no Wikipedia references will be permitted, since there are not viewed as academically sound.

5.       The topics pick either Ford in Thailand or General Motors in CHINA

6.       The research for this paper will include any resources used in the course, external Internet, and hard copy references to help support your points in your writing. Since this is a graduate-level course, the student will be expected to write a quality research paper with a high-level of analysis and discussion to sufficiently cover the key topic and supporting points used in the student’s writing.