Literature review case study of Nike Organization and how they were effected by their use of cheap and forced labor both internally and externally

To satisfy the requirements of this paper, you must: 

1. Include a minimum of six articles or information sources about your firm. The same parameters of the bibliography apply here: minimize the number of sources produced by the organization (though financial information, legal filings, tax returns, etc. can be useful); draw on peer reviewed articles, academic books, industry or trade reports or features, and other reputable, verifiable sources. 

1. Drawing on your sources, write a 3–5 page paper that describes what your firm did and what happened to it in a defined period of its history. Your research and narrative may have to reach further back than your specified period in order to develop an adequate picture of the changes faced by your firm. You will want to include at least some discussion of both “internal” and “external” factors at your organization – as we will discuss in class.

1. The point of the paper is to identify and describe the factors that your sources suggest were most important to your organization’s trajectory. Your sources may not entirely agree; if that’s the case, it’s a relevant element to describe in the paper (“there are two (or twelve) main theories of what drove these events…”) In conceptualizing your narrative, imagine you are trying to convince a jury, in a clear and compelling way, as to the “facts” of what happened to your organization. For instance, your organization might have been acquired by another corporation, or gone bankrupt. The sheer fact of take-over or bankruptcy describes something important about your organization. However, your paper should reach deeper and present information about e.g. why your organization was in a position to be taken over, or what were the key factors that generated the bankruptcy, etc. In sum, you should be prepared to describe what made your organization’s trajectory possible or even likely. Some questions that might help to orient your research: 

1. What are the company’s basic “internal” structure and dynamics? Did they change during the period in question?
1. What best characterizes the organizational model? Was it constant, or did it change?
2. Have the agency’s purposes or products changed in important ways?
3. Were there relevant managerial changes, or shifts in how production or goals were pursued?
4. Did the organization build, acquire, or sell-off parts of its operations?

1. Were there “external” facts or events that altered your org’s decisions and/or fate?
1. Who were/are its main competitors? What were relations between them?
2. Were there shifts in product markets, technologies, politics, resources needed to function?

You need not answer all of these; they are just to get you started. DO make sure you cite your sources properly and include a bibliography with complete citations (the bibliography does not count toward your page count).