For this week's assignment, you will write the fourth part of your strategic management research journal. You will evaluate Alphabet's integration and globalization and its impact on the organization's goals.

Writea response to the following prompts in your journal entry:

• Identify Alphabet's short-term and long-term goals.
• Evaluate how mergers and acquisitions in the last 3 to 5 years have contributed to Alphabet's performance and affected its organizational goals.
• Determinethe most critical merger or acquisition that has contributed to Alphabet's performance and success in achieving organizational goals.Defend your choice.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of Alphabet's operational plan for global strategies (international, multi-domestic, global-standardization, or transnational). Include supporting research or data.