Using the company your Instructor approved from week 1 assignment, complete the following:

1. Identify the company's domestic environment and discuss how the government regulations affect its domestic environment it must operate in.

2. Identify a global environment for the company and discuss how the government regulations affect its global environment it must operate in.

3. Identify the hard and soft technology and interpret the characteristics the company should have/use to be successful in its domestic and global environment.

4. Identify the political-legal barriers for the company in both the domestic and global environments. Use business theory/theorists to illustrate how the company can operate successfully in its domestic and global environment.

5. Identify, compare, and contrast sociocultural factors of the domestic and global environments of the company.

6. Compare and contrast two economic theories for both the domestic and global environments of the company.

7. Develop a strategy of success based on your evaluation of steps 1-6 by assessing what you've learned through your research and readings and compare what the company has been doing to what you recommend they should be doing. You cannot state that you would not change anything.

8. You must incorporate critical thinking (see resources below).

9. Research requirement: minimum 5 scholarly sources PLUS the text/readings and Geert Hofstede. SEE BELOW RESOURCES

10. Page requirement: 5 pages in APA format (does not count cover page and reference page).

11. Assignment MUST be submitted to turnitin.com and here (see turnitin.com forum for more important information).

Readings based on your chosen environment to discuss; you are not limited to the below:

Sociocultural:

1. Geert Hofstede: http://geert-hofstede.com/

Economic:

2. Rostow's Economic Development: http://www.nvcc.edu/home/nvfordc/econdev/introduction/stages.html

3. Galbraith and Economics: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/04/john_kenneth_ga.html

4. The Leontief Paradox: http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/leo.htm

Domestic:

5. Michael Porter's Five Forces Model: http://www.businessballs.com/portersfiveforcesofcompetition.htm

Global:
6. Global Agricultural Marketing Management: http://www.fao.org/docrep/W5973E/w5973e00.htm#Contents

7. Platzek, B. P., Winzker, D., & Pretorius, L. (2011, January). Global business environment: Holistic intrapreneurship. SCMS Journal of Indian Management, 8(1), 96-114 located in BUSN310 campus guide.

8. Elekdag, S. (2008). How does the global economic environment influence the demand for IMF resources? IMF Staff Papers, 55(4), 624-653. doi:10.1057/imfsp.2008.4 located in BUSN310 campus guide.

Using the company your Instructor approved from week 1 assignment, complete the following:

1. Identify the company's domestic environment and discuss how the government regulations affect its domestic environment it must operate in.

2. Identify a global environment for the company and discuss how the government regulations affect its global environment it must operate in.

3. Identify the hard and soft technology and interpret the characteristics the company should have/use to be successful in its domestic and global environment.

4. Identify the political-legal barriers for the company in both the domestic and global environments. Use business theory/theorists to illustrate how the company can operate successfully in its domestic and global environment.

5. Identify, compare, and contrast sociocultural factors of the domestic and global environments of the company.

6. Compare and contrast two economic theories for both the domestic and global environments of the company.

7. Develop a strategy of success based on your evaluation of steps 1-6 by assessing what you've learned through your research and readings and compare what the company has been doing to what you recommend they should be doing. You cannot state that you would not change anything.

8. You must incorporate critical thinking (see resources below).

9. Research requirement: minimum 5 scholarly sources PLUS the text/readings and Geert Hofstede. SEE BELOW RESOURCES

10. Page requirement: 5 pages in APA format (does not count cover page and reference page).

11. Assignment MUST be submitted to turnitin.com and here (see turnitin.com forum for more important information).

Readings based on your chosen environment to discuss; you are not limited to the below:

Sociocultural:

1. Geert Hofstede: http://geert-hofstede.com/

Economic:

2. Rostow's Economic Development: http://www.nvcc.edu/home/nvfordc/econdev/introduction/stages.html

3. Galbraith and Economics: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/04/john_kenneth_ga.html

4. The Leontief Paradox: http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/leo.htm

Domestic:

5. Michael Porter's Five Forces Model: http://www.businessballs.com/portersfiveforcesofcompetition.htm

Global:
6. Global Agricultural Marketing Management: http://www.fao.org/docrep/W5973E/w5973e00.htm#Contents

7. Platzek, B. P., Winzker, D., & Pretorius, L. (2011, January). Global business environment: Holistic intrapreneurship. SCMS Journal of Indian Management, 8(1), 96-114 located in BUSN310 campus guide.

8. Elekdag, S. (2008). How does the global economic environment influence the demand for IMF resources? IMF Staff Papers, 55(4), 624-653. doi:10.1057/imfsp.2008.4 located in BUSN310 campus guide.Technology:

9. Goedhuys, M., Janz, N., & Mohnen, P. (2008, June). What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or business environment? European Journal of Development Research, 20(2), 199-218. doi:10.1080/09578810802060785 located in BUSN310 campus guide.

Political/Legal

10. Wu, Q. (2007, November). The making of a market economy in China: Transformation of government regulation of market development. European Law Journal, 13(6), 750-771. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0386.2007.00394.x located in