Assignment:
Annotated Bibliography
Task Description
Description
This is an annotated bibliography that will be 1500 words
Purpose
This individual written assessment is designed to assist you to develop your knowledge of management and business contexts. The secondary purpose of this assessment task is to give you the opportunity to enhance skills in research, professional responsibility, and written communication.
Task details
Your task is to compile an annotated bibliography of five recent (2014-2018) peer reviewed journal articles from the list of journals provided. You cannot use articles from any other journals and you cannot use the journal articles that are prescribed as weekly readings. You must include the doi for each journal article in the reference list. The list of journals that you can use for your articles is provided on the Moodle site.
You are required to:
Identify five (5) journal articles that match the first five topics of this unit. That is, you must find one journal article per topic:
a. Organisational structures or governance,
b. Environmental forces,
c. Risks confronting the firm,
d. Organisation and business practices, and
e. The functions of diverse firms.
You should search the library databases via the online 'advanced search' function of the CQUniversity library. By choosing the 'advanced search' function you can select the actual journal you wish to search.
Write a short introduction discussing why the contextual factors are important to organisational decision making.
Write 1 to 2 paragraphs per article that does the following:
a. defines the main contextual factor being discussed in the journal article,
b. outlines the new findings in relation to the contextual factor, and
c. explains what these findings mean for managers in organisations.
Write a short conclusion recommending one specific contextual factor as most important to CQUniversity's organisational performance. Explain your reasoning.
Write a reference list correctly formatted in the APA style. This reference list must contain all five articles as well as the doi for each article.