SHORT PAPER ASSIGNMENT
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
BACKGROUND:
All students are required to complete a short paper evaluating their social responsibility skills according to the below state core objectives on social responsibility. This is a mandatory economics department paper assignment.
Intercultural: You must (a) demonstrate the impact of important contributions of various cultural groups; (b) analyze the contrasting outlooks, perspectives, and values of these cultural groups.
Civic Responsibility: You must (a) demonstrate an understanding of how social and democratic institutions interact; (b) analyze the effects of an individual carrying out citizenship responsibility and the effects of not doing so.
Regional, National, and Global Communities: You must (a) demonstrate an understanding of the unique challenges associated with civic engagement; (b) analyze the ability of regional, national, and global communities or organizations to solve specific problems.
ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION:
Assume the following hypothetical scenario: ZooGoo Corporation is an American company that manufactures cost-effective protective covers for smartphones made out of innovative composite material, which currently are being manufactured and sold only in the United States. ZooGoo has received interest for its innovative protective covers from countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. ZooGoo management is considering selling as well as manufacturing its innovative protective covers overseas in those countries to meet international consumer interest.
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS:
Discuss this developing international trade scenario from a social responsibility perspective by analyzing and explaining the company’s potential international trade in accordance with the three core objectives listed above emphasizing the following in your discussion of the above three core objectives:
Necessary interactions among the following culture groups: the firm’s management, the firm’s current domestic production workers and sales staff, the potentially hired workers and sales staff overseas, government regulators and customers overseas etc.
Necessary consideration of each culture group’s perception and practice of economic reality, the resolution of cultural barriers while penetrating an overseas market, the responsibilities taken on while penetrating an overseas market, and the responsibilities of the firm and its staff individually and collectively toward various communities,
Conclude with a concise summary in line with the three social responsibility core objectives listed above.
ASSIGNMENT RULES:
Please write up your answers in a minimum of 3 pages and a maximum of 4 pages including references with a staple in the upper left corner, double spaced, size 10 type, Times-Roman font, with 1 inch margins at the top, sides, and bottom of each page. Please do not add a cover page. The title of the paper, your name, and your Collin College CWID number should be centered at the top of your first page.
The paper is. You need to upload your paper on Canvas.
This short paper is worth 70 points. You will achieve a good grade for demonstrating:
Correct findings 4. Meeting the core objectives
Complete report 5. Following the instructions
Complete citations 6. Correct spelling and good use of grammar.
