Качественное/количественное исследование причин, влияющих на выбор CBM&As (cross-border merges& acquisitions) и IJV (international joint ventures) в различных отраслях промышленности

Team project – Qualitative/Quantitative Research of reasons affecting choice of CBM&As

and IJVs in various industries (OIL&GAS -our industry)

Goal – to identify reasons that have affected choice of cross border mergers and acquisitions and

international joint ventures.

Format – assignment to be prepared in teams of seven students max.

Identify the title of research:

 Example: Reasons influencing choice of CBM&As and IJVs by oil and gas companies in

developing countries;

It is possible to narrow down to specific countries in industry only if there are more than 1 000

deals to be analyzed in Zephyr.

Structure of analysis:

Review scientific articles on reasons affecting choice of internationalization strategy (start from

general view of all potential reasons, then narrow it down to industry-specific ones); I do not

recommend using consulting reports. Try to find appropriate scientific articles from JSTOR, Web

of Science or Scopus.

Qualitative research of reasons from Zephyr (analyze deal rationale, find out the most common

reasons mentioned in this column through counting specific words) – available extracts will be

provided;

Compare the reasons from scientific articles and your own research. Make conclusions and

explain your findings and provide possible explanations if there are discrepancies between

reasons mentioned in scientific articles and your own research.

Form of project submission:

 Presentations (10 min in class + Q&A session, number of slides should be reasonable);

 Essays from 3 to 5 pages (450 words per page). Use Times New Roman font size 14 and

APA style for references in text and bibliography (especially for citation of scientific

articles).

Deadlines:

 Presentations (to be sent before the midnight from Friday to Saturday, December 2);

 Essays (to be sent before the midnight from Saturday to Sunday, December 3).

Each team has to submit one group presentation and one group essay.

Since this is a team assignment, students will have to provide peer evaluation and independently

evaluate teammates (to be conducted anonymously, marks from 1 to 10 should be given to each

team member). It will affect individual mark of each student, derived from total mark that team will

receive for the project! Example: total mark of the team for project is 8 – there are five members

in the team and four members have evaluated one student as 5 out of 10, then this student will

receive final individual mark for team project as 4. This is done to weed out free-riders in the team