Referencing Styles : Harvard
Assignment questions:
As a group, you are expected to undertake wide research on the recent collapse of Dick Smith Electronics. In your assignment, you need to:
1. Provide background information of the company before its collapse, e.g., its operations, management team, share prices, etc. (200-300 words)
2. Comprehensively analyse the factors causing Dick Smith’s collapse. Your answers to this question (900-1000 words) should include the following three parts:
a) Internal factors (Hint: you should discuss different factors, for example, inventory mismanagement, corporate governance and strategy, role of private equity, etc.);
b) External factors (Hint: you may discuss different factors, for example, external financing, market competition, technology threat, the general economic environment, etc.);
c) After analysing the internal and external factors, nominate and justify two factors (i.e., one external factor and one internal factor) that you think contributed most to Dick Smith’s downfall.