Primary Task Response: For this assignment, create a draft cover letter for your Request for Proposal (RFP) that you will develop in this weeks Individual Project assignment. The 1-page cover letter is what is sent along with the RFP to potential vendors of information systems. If you need help with writing a business letter, go to the Learning Center in the classroom, and choose the Writing Support Center. Then, click on the Writing Types tab, select Workplace Writing Types from the column on the left, and then choose Letter.

Guidelines for Writing Reflection Papers
The reflection paper is a personal reflection on specific material attached. The primary goal of a reflection paper is to examine how the material intersects with your lived experiences – in school, home, workplace or other.
 
Best Practices:
* The writer demonstrates an understanding of the material by connecting it to her own ideas, previous experience, or recent learning.
* The paper should not be a free-write or journal entry.
* The writer should go beyond a first reaction to reflect upon the material, synthesize the personal response in the material, and organize it in a concise, cogent fashion.
* Although personal response is central to a reflection paper, the work should also reflect about the content attached.
* The reflection paper should raise questions, and arrive at a conclusion or insight that demonstrates how you, the writer, was influenced by the material or by the reflective process.

The paper should be 2 full pages.

Question 1

(a)    What are the major risks of internationalisation for firms? Clarify your answers with appropriate examples.
(b)    Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is both expensive and risky yet many organisations prefer FDI over either exporting or licensing. Discuss with examples the various firm-level (organisational) motives for FDI

Question 2
(a)    Explain the three basic decisions that firms contemplating foreign expansion must make. Use examples where possible to clarify your answers
(b)    Outline the various roles of a foreign subsidiary and discuss the organisational and host government factors that can determine the evolution of foreign subsidiaries?
Question 3

(a)    Explain the key tenants of institutional theory. Illustrate how institutions impact corporate decision-making in international business
(b)    Discuss the pressure for local responsiveness for firms in choosing a global strategy. What are the strategic implications for a firm in responding to this pressure?

Read the How To Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie book.  Create a synopsis of the book (2 pages maximum)

A synopsis a summation of the book. The first paragraph should describe the overall theme or focus of the book. The book might go into multiple different aspects; however, for the synopsis, you will not be able to discuss all of them. Address three to four concepts in the book and relate them to how you can apply them to your life or career.
Find two other sources that enforce concepts from the book. Use proper APA for paraphrased or direct quotes. The final paragraph should be the conclusion and reemphasize the focus of the book and the main concepts.
Remember that you need to show critical thinking in the paper (reflections on how the book can assist you in your career or how you correlate it to past experiences or this class)
Grading will follow the grading rubric. < Check the Grading rubric file
Papers need to be double spaced, 12-point font, times new roman with once inch margins. The Title of the Paper and your name will be in the header.
The paper will then follow as described above with a maximum of two pages.
The third page will be a reference page that will list the book that was read and the two outside sources.
The fourth page will be the grading rubric found
in Assignment Header in Assignment Two Module in Canvas.

!!!!! Please read all 4 file Instructions for the extra requirements.