Strategy Making

The research paper is your opportunity to explore strategy or strategy making in-depth in the situation and/or from the perspective you have identified in your re-search proposal by applying all or a portion of our analytical framework comprised of Nine Constants and Nine Variables to a strategic situation of your choosing and which is not one of our case studies.
You must submit a paper of 16-18 pages that uses at least five credible academic sources as the basis for the evidence used in your analysis of your particular strategic situation. This will be the result of cumulative efforts throughout the course.
• The Week 2 research proposal assignment will provide the first 6-8 pages of your paper. This includes your Research Question, Tentative Hypothesis, a Concise Description of the strategic situation you are ad-dressing, and a Literature Review. You must make the necessary re-visions to these aspects after receiving my feedback and for the final paper.
• The Week 6 research paper must provide at least 10 pages of additional analysis. This part of the paper presents the findings of your re-search, derived from applying our analytical framework comprised of Nine Constants and Nine Variables to your particular strategic situation, states explicitly whether the results confirmed or refuted your Tentative Hypothesis from Week 2 research proposal (either outcome is acceptable as long as the finds support your conclusion), and provides a conclusion that addressed the validity and usefulness of our analytical framework comprised of Nine Constants and Nine Variables based upon how it helped you evaluate your particular strategic situation.
Here is an example of the MILS514 research paper for your reference and use. Written by a former student in MILS514, it is properly formatted, contains all required components, is well writ-ten in the appropriate voice (i.e, thrid person formal and not first per-son informal) and properly supported with sufficient number of references to ample credible and scholarly sources, and it should pro-vide you with an excellent example to show you what “right looks like” for this assignment. You are free to use it as a template to for-mat your own paper (a very good idea!), and you are also free to use its substances to show you how and how much in depth to address the required components of this assignment.
Here is the format for your research paper:

1. A Title Page listing your title, name, course name and number, date, and my name as the professor.
2. Your primary Research Question (revised as necessary from the Week 2 as-signment), stated in the form of a single clearly worded open-ended question that is not able to be answered with a “yes” or “no” response.
3. Your Hypothesis (revised as necessary from the Week 2 assignment) that presents your “best guess” at what you think the answer to your research ques-tion will be.
4. A Concise Description of the strategic situation you are addressing (revised as necessary from the Week 2 assignment).
5. Literature Review (revised as necessary from the Week 2 assignment) that identifies the gaps you found in the existing literature as they apply to your topic and approach.
6. The Findings of Your Research, derived from applying our analytical framework comprised of Nine Constants and Nine Variables to your particular strategic situation.
7. The Results of your findings that states explicitly whether the results confirmed or refuted your Hypothesis (either outcome is acceptable as long as the finds support your conclusion).
8. A Conclusion that addresses the validity and usefulness of our analytical framework based upon how effective it was in helping you evaluate your particular strategic situation.
9. References. providing complete citations for all references in the paper.
   Technical Requirements
   • Your paper must be at a minimum of 16-18 pages (the Title and Refer-ence pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
   • Scholarly and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content.
   • Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
   • Students will follow the current Turabian Style as the sole citation and ref-erence style used in written work submitted as part of coursework.
   • Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, arti-cles, archived documents, etc.
   • All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.