Category: Business and Management

In an APA formatted Word document, address the following:
Part 1. What is the relationship between mean, median, and mode? Under what circumstances are they equal?
Part 2. Over the next several weeks, we will be observing a company that develops, markets, manufactures, and sells integrated wide-area network access products. See the attached dataset for the salary paid to employees
Calculate the simple and weighted arithmetic mean of salary paid.
Calculate to Coefficient of Range
Find the average deviation from mean

Using information that you have learned from the readings and videos, write a 1-2 page paper that discusses the four functional areas within a business and their role in managing change and growth.
Your paper should be formatted with a heading for each functional area: marketing, human resources, accounting & finance, and operations.
Under each heading, you will:
Describe the functional area. What is it and what does it do within the organization? Your description should include 2-3 main tasks associated with the department.
Explain how the functional area contributes to the overall success of the organization using specific examples from your readings or the videos.
Describe how the functional area contributes to managing organizational change. In this response, feel free to consider the Eight Steps to Successful Change that you have learned about in Our Iceberg Is Melting. Be sure to use specific examples from your readings or the videos.

Please go over the scenario below and answer the questions.
Each assignment must be a minimum of 3-5 pages of original discussion and analysis, not
counting the title page, reference page, figures, tables, and appendixes. Each application
assignment must be supported by at least scholarly references made in the last 5 years, in APA format.
Julie James is opening a lemonade stand. She believes the fixed cost per week of running the stand is $50.00. Her best guess is that she can sell 300 cups per week at $0.50 per cup. The variable cost of producing a cup of lemonade is $0.20. 
Given her other assumptions, what level of sales volume will enable Julie to break even?
Given her other assumptions, discuss how a change in sales volume affects profit. 
Given her other assumptions, discuss how a change in sales volume and variable cost jointly affect profit. 
Use Excel’s Formula Auditing tools to show which cells in your spreadsheet affect profit directly.

Instructions
Grade weight
Each Assignment is worth 6% of your total grade.
Course Objectives
Demonstrate a knowledge of the fundamentals of e-Business
Discuss the role of e-Business in practical business applications
Prompt:
For each of the three classification dimensions along which e-Business scenarios can be classified (parties, objects, and time scopes), provide an original example to illustrate its application and explain how this example relates to the BOAT (Business, Organization, Architecture, Technology) aspect dimension.
Instructions:
Response should be approximately 2-3 pages (not counting the cover page and references page), supported with credible references and corresponding in-text citations, all in APA format.
You must submit your assignment as a Word (.doc, .docx) attachment on the Assignments tab for the week. Assignments submitted in any other manner will not be accepted.

Assignment Content
In this course, you will develop a strategic marketing plan for a selected business that you will use throughout this course. To do so, the assignments and summative assessments in this course build on each other, and you will develop your strategic marketing plan in sections. Please do not integrate previously used content from other courses or assessments outside of this course. 
Review the Strategic Marketing Plan Template to get an understanding of the type of information you will need throughout this course.
Select 1 well-known business you would like to research and use as the basis for developing a marketing campaign. Refer to the following resources, as needed, for assistance selecting a business and locating information about it:
Marketing professional organizations, such as 4 A’s website or American Marketing Association website
Get Started with Marketing Research page on the University Library website
Business databases on the Week 1 University Library
Consider the following during your business selection process:
The business you select will be used throughout the weekly assignments and summative assessments in this course.
It will be to your benefit to select a business whose information is easily accessible. While you will base your plan on the actual business, there may be parts of this assignment that will require you to use your knowledge and resources to make an informed plan.
Develop a 350- to 700-word outline for your selected business in which you include the following information that you will use to complete portions of your Week 2 summative assessment:  
Mission statement
Vision statement
Product line description
Business information, such as the size of the business
Current target markets
Current marketing tactics
Cite sources to support your outline.
Format citations and references according to APA guidelines.
https://www.aaaa.org/
https://www.ama.org/
https://go.gale.com/ps/start.do?p=GBIB&u=uphoenix&aty=shibboleth

You have a line lipstick that is popular that you have run out of the ingredients and have
back order. Your marketing department recommends bringing up the price. Based on 
marketing principles why might they make recommendation ?

Section 1. Outline the differences between Amazon and the products/services the brand offers;
Section 2. Critically evaluate why Amazon is successful;
Section 3. Discuss how Amazon’s marketing communications are consistent/ inconsistent with its identity and its different aspects.

Capstone Written Assignment
• Topic: Assigned by Elective Tutor; After reading 4 academic sources introducing the topic,
students will develop a research question related to their own interests, and find at least 2
additional academic sources that address their research question.
• Graded by both Elective Tutor (content, argumentation 50%) and Academic Skills Tutor (writing
style, design 50%)
Objectives: Students will write an original research paper, extending the assigned topic.
• Make weekly progress on their final paper
• Find good quality, academic sources that addressthe research question
• Learn to summarize and analyse academic texts in their own words
• Use proper citation ofsources in APA format
• Develop a logical thesis statement that is supported by their research
• Demonstrate an academic style of writing, using proper grammar, tone and vocabulary
Criteria: Minimum 4500 words – maximum 5000 words (Introduction – Conclusion)
• Includes signed title page, statement of academic integrity
• Use of 6+ academic articles (4 provided by Elective instructor; minimum 2 found by student)
• Maximum 10% similarity detection on Plagiarism check (Any copied text is shown as
“quotations” with a source; able to paraphrase ideas in their own words/sentence structure)
Student Assessment Sheet: Capstone Paper (Block 2)
Content 30 credits Feedback on content (Elective tutor)
•Coverage of the literature
•Integration of different articles
•Interpretation of the literature
•Critical reflection of the literature
•Logic in addressing capstone statement
•Conclusions reflect on capstone
statement.
Argumentation: 20 credits Feedback on argumentation (Elective Tutor)
•Quality of arguments used
•Logic in argumentation
•Conclusions in line with arguments
(proper weighting of arguments)
•Paper is convincing
•Acknowledgement of limitation
Writing style: 30 credits Feedback on writing style (Academic Skills)
•Introduction invites to read
•Readability: coherence, paraphrasing
•Paragraph structure
•Academic tone: vocabulary, hedging
•Spelling and writing (grammar etc.)
Design: 20 credits
•Layout (including figures, tables etc) Feedback on design (Academic Skills)
•Structure in sections (chapters)
Word count: 4,500 min. – 5,000 words max.
•Reference citations in text
•References list complete APA format
•Plagiarism report
I need to use 4 assigned articles which are: 
Goverance, Ownership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Impact of Industry
Technological Opportunities
Author(s): Shaker A. Zahra
Source: The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Dec., 1996), pp. 1713-1735
Published by: Academy of Management
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/257076   
Strategizing throughout the Organization: Managing Role Conflict in Strategic Renewal
Author(s): Steven W. Floyd and Peter J. Lane
Source: The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 154-177
Published by: Academy of Management
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/259268 .
Covin, Jeffrey & Miles, Morgan. (1999). Corporate Entrepreneurship and the Pursuit of Competitive Advantage. Corporate Entrepreneurship and Growth. 23. 47-63. 10.1177/104225879902300304.   
The relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and strategic management
Bruce R. Barringer, Allen C. Bluedorn
First published: 15 April 1999
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199905)20:53.0.CO;2-O

How does strategic entrepreneurship help firms
create value?
How does a firm acquire other companies to
increase the number of innovations it produces and improve its capability
to innovate?
Select a global organization or company not from
the textbook and discuss how the international trade system and the
economic, political-legal, and cultural environments have affected its
international marketing decisions. (McDonald’s Corporation)
Is it feasible for all companies to be global
marketers?  Do certain industries seem better suited for global
marking than others?  Why or why not?
How can marketing practices create barriers to
entry that potentially harm other firms?  Are these barriers helpful
or harmful to consumers?
Select a company not from the textbook and
research that firm’s efforts to be socially responsibl e.  I chose McDonald’s .

So…you need to do a growth sustainable business plan for a imaginary company “ECO Trend”. I have uploaded a pdf presentation about this company and you will extract your information from there. The company it should be based in the UK and you have to explain if it is a Sole Trader company, Limited Liability Partenership company, or a Limited company. I have also uploaded the assigment brief.