TOPICS:

Managing Stakeholders in a Virtual WorldChapter

Managing Difficult Stakeholders

Activity 4 - Research Project

Research Paper:This is a graduate course and students will be expected to research and write paperssummarizing in their own wordswhat they have found on current topics from the weekly readings. Research is a theoretical review of relevant literature and application of findings in the literature to a topic related to a specific industry, field, or business problem.

Theresearch must be conducted using peer-reviewed trade or academic journals. While Blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias, course textbooks, popular magazines, newspaper articles, online websites, etc. are helpful for providing background information, these resources areNOTsuitable resources for this research assignment.

Please Note:The UC Library staff are very helpful with assisting students in using the UC Online Library journal database. Please contact them if you have issues. In addition, the instructor has provided additional resources, including a research tutorial, in the "Course Resources" folder in the "Content" area of the course.

Assignment Requirements:

1. Choose a research topic from the chapter readings.
2. Research/find a minimum at least four (4), preferably five (5) or more, different peer-reviewed articles on your topic from the University of the Cumberlands Library online business database. The article(s) must be relevant and from a peer-reviewed source. While you may use relevant articles from any time frame, current/published within the last five (5) years are preferred. Using literature that is irrelevant or unrelated to the chosen topic will result in a point reduction.