ELEE1169-M02 RESEARCH PLANNING AND COMMUNICATIONS Assignment Sample

Introduction

The economic and political decisions of governments across the world for a long time have been influential in shaping industries across the globe. The Brexit Decision taken by the Government of the United Kingdom has been one of the most impactful decisions of recent times. This has been a landmark decision on the part of Great Britain to clarify its position to the world, especially to that of the European Union. The Brexit decision has got a lot of positive impact in terms of fewer trader restrictions by that of the European Union. However, companies that have got close-knit industrial connections with that of Europe have faced major setbacks. The Small and Medium-scale industries being a part of the U.K business scenario have also been affected as a result of this decision. However, the extent of this impact has varied from industry to industry.(ELEE1169-M02 RESEARCH PLANNING AND COMMUNICATIONS Assignment Sample)

Research Problem

This research seeks to discuss the extent of the impact of Brexit upon various small and medium-scale industries of the United Kingdom. The decision of Britain to exit from the European Union is mainly a decision of the British Government from an Economic as well as Business perspective. This decision was taken by a poll that was held among the British people to get their consensus regarding this decision. However, the impact of this decision has brought some major repercussions especially upon various Small and Medium scale industries across the United Kingdom. This research seeks to discuss the extent of the impact of this decision upon various Small and Medium scale industries in a detailed manner to understand their position in the post-Brexit situation.

The impact of the Brexit decision upon various Small and Medium scale industries has in turn created some changes upon various processes that tend to influence the British Society as well as its people. This research also seeks to analyze this scenario as well in the post-Brexit world.

Research Significance

Britain’s decision to exit from the European Union is such a decision that has touched almost all sectors of British Industry. However, this decision has got some mixed responses in terms of an industry’s sourcing and distribution channels as well as manpower position. Numerous articles have been written about the impact of this decision upon various Multinational giants that operate across the globe. However, research work from the perspective of small and medium scale industries has been quite a few. This research thus seeks to shed some light upon these sectors that include the majority of the firms in the United Kingdom. This research is thus going to be helpful for various firms that operate in this sector to understand plausible economic scenarios that they may be facing before entering into business contracts. This research is also going to be helpful to throw some light upon various decisions that firms should make to survive as per the needs of the changing times in the post- Brexit world.

The Brexit decision had created an initial turbulence amongst various people be it a commoner, small industrialist, or a business tycoon. There has been a generation of numerous speculations about the impact of this decision that also led to the creation of a huge amount of confusion. This research is also hopefully going to reduce this confusion upon assessing the impact of this decision upon people of British society who are associated with these industries as well.

Aim of the Research

This research seeks to make a thorough analysis of the impact of the Brexit decision upon various forms of Small and Medium-scale industries.

Research Objectives

• To analyze the impact of the Brexit decision upon various small and medium-scale industries of the United Kingdom.
• The current economic scenario in the post-Brexit world from an industrial perspective.
• Strategic decisions that can be taken by various Small and medium-scale industries to survive in this post-Brexit world.

Scope of the Research

The current COVID-19 situation has posed numerous threats upon any particular research in terms of the collection of any direct data. Thus for this research, there has been a major reliance only upon various secondary sources to collect relevant data. This research seeks to make an understanding about various methods that contribute towards the performances of various Small and Medium Scale enterprises of the United Kingdom. This research can however be expanded in the post COVID times when various primary data can be quite easily collected through organizing various surveys. These surveys are extremely helpful to find out the impact of the Brexit decision directly from that of the market. Integrating these data with primary ones is going to widen the area of this research in the future.

Research Significance

This research is going to be extremely useful in terms of analyzing the impact of Brexit from the perspective that of various small and medium scale industries. The expanse of Small and Medium-scale industries is less internationally but is more from a national perspective. This research is going to bring the previous and post-Brexit situation of these industries to the spotlight. This is going to be extremely helpful in understanding properly the impact of the Brexit decision on this sector.

Part 2

Journal 1:

This journal makes a thorough analysis regarding the impact of Brexit upon various Small and Medium scale industries of the United Kingdom from an entrepreneurial perspective. As per Brown et al.(2019), Brexit has actually caused a huge number of changes in some of the major areas of business that are currently happening across the United Kingdom. Policy decisions of various organizations have to be rescaled now to fit in with the changes that are going to come up after Brexit. This journal highlights that various major sourcing arrears like that of raw material sourcing, export-import rules have got to be rescaled now. Industries including those in Small and medium scale sectors are trying to find out different innovative ways to properly strategize as per changing requirements of post-Brexit days.

Shortcomings

This journal seeks to understand the impact of Brexit in terms of various policies that are going to see an impact like that of International Policy and immigration policy. But there is a lack of industry-specific data.

Journal 2:

This journal mainly tends to focus on the impact of Brexit upon various manufacturing organizations of the United Kingdom. As per the opinion of Gasiorek et al. (2018), various retail and technological industries are going to be majorly affected after Brexit. However, the hospitality and food industries are going to benefit from this decision. Technologically inclined industries, specifically those who have had close links with countries of the European Union are going to be hugely affected.

Shortcomings

The extent of growth of hospitality firms in the post-Brexit situation has not been properly compared with that of the previous records across different levels.

Journal 3:

Contribution to Knowledge

The current journal seeks to highlight the increasing importance of the English language and culture in the post-Brexit world upon various industries of the United Kingdom. As per the opinion of Holmes (2018), English culture is going to play a more significant role in English industries in the post-Brexit world.

Shortcomings

This study seems to neglect the fact that cultural conveniences seem to play a secondary role in industrial scenarios in most cases. But here this has been given primary importance.

Journal 4:

This journal tends to highlight the impact of Brexit on the interregional level in the United Kingdom. As per the opinion of Billinget al.(2019), the Brexit decision is going to create an unequal impact upon the economic scenario across various regions over the United kingdom.

Shortcomings

Policy decisions across different parts of the United Kingdom that have been adopted by various regional Governments to implement Brexit decisions have not been given in detail in this journal.

Journal 5:

This article tends to highlight the fact that the automobile sector is going to be majorly affected by the Brexit decision. As per David Bailey(2017), Automobile firms of the United Kingdom are going to be increasingly marginalized in the European Union in post-Brexit days. The automobile industry is one of the most technologically-driven industries of current times. Most major automobile industries operate in an alliance across different parts of the European Union in a network. As per this journal, the Brexit decision has created such a situation where most firms currently need to realign most of their major operational policies to continue their operations.

Shortcomings

This journal does not however analyze from the perspective of various subunits of the automobile sector.

Journal 6:

Contribution to Knowledge

 This journal seeks to analyze Brexit’s implication on the banking sector of the United Kingdom. As per the opinion of Cazan (2017), the banking sector initially has gone through negative phases after the Brexit decision. But this industry is hopeful of better days in the future.

Shortcomings

In this journal, major stresses have been given upon detailed analysis with the application of economic theories. A more comprehensive market data would have probably better suited this research. A major use of calculative methods has been done in this journal with a little exploration of varied business scenarios. This thus has left out some of the major areas that are currently impacting Brexit decisions.

Journal 7:

Contribution to Knowledge

This journal criticizes the major area that has been given upon just the implication of the Brexit decision upon the British Economy. As per the opinion of Jessop (2018), Neoliberalisation is the key word of the current times that is affecting the economy of the United Kingdom, specifically in the post Brexit world. Neoliberalisation of post-Brexit days has created a huge impact in generating inequalities across the United Kingdom’s economy, which is discussed in this section.

Shortcomings

Too much emphasis has been given in this journal just for Neoliberalisation and unequal development. An emphasis upon other areas would have been more helpful.

Journal 8:

Contribution to Knowledge

This journal has given up a detailed discussion on the background for Britain’s Brexit decision. This research mainly tends to focus upon various factors for convenience in the economic scenario that have made Britain go forward towards adopting the Brexit decision. As per Somai (2017), balance of power across European countries has influenced the Brexit decision as well.

Shortcomings

This journal has focused mainly only upon the United Kingdom’s position post Brexit. There have been no huge reliance from an inter-county perspective.

Journal 9:

Contribution to Knowledge

This journal has found out various different modules through which the relationship between the United Kingdom andEuropean Union can get shaped in the post Brexit situation. As per the opinion of Hix (2018), the relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom can take up a turn towards a softer direction, a harder one or stay in the midway. But this is going to depend upon the strength by which Brexit policy decisions are going to be implemented.

Shortcomings

The United Kingdom’s own cultural and political scenarios are going to be hugely influential in shaping various policy decisions across the United Kingdom. These areas have not been touched in this journal as focus has been mainly upon cross country comparison.

Journal 10:

Contribution to Knowledge

This journal mainly tends to stress upon the impact of the Brexit decision with cross comparison with various past data related to that of past performances of various firms. As per the opinion of Thissen et al.(2018), the impact of the Brexit decision is going to create different implications across different sectors. The extent of this implication is going to vary from region to region as well as across industries

Shortcomings

There is more stress upon a data specific study of various factors that play an influential role in the United Kingdom’s economy. A detailed analysis from the point of view of suppliers and other such stakeholder’s perspective could have increased knowledge base.

Research gap

Researches as given in the various journals have mainly differed between an industry specific analysis and that of a country wide regional analysis. This has been mainly done to find out the differential impact that Brexit is posing and is going to pose in future as well across different sectors. However there is notmuch data that is available about inter-country comparison across various sectors. This could have helped locate actual performance of various industries spread out across the United Kingdom. Besides performance comparison data with that of past partners of various firms across the United Kingdom could have been of lot help in finding out the actual effect of Brexit decision upon that of various different industries of the Small and Medium scale sector.

Part 3:

Data approaches and techniques

Research Design

In this research a descriptive research design has been followed to understand Brexit’s impact upon various Small and Medium scale sectors. This research design has been selected in this part because it is relatively cheaper and easier to conduct research through the usage of this method. Besides, this design is also helpful in understanding interrelationships of various data. Descriptive research design is also best suited for a comprehensive topic like that of Brexit where there are numerous associated areas that tend to get impacted because of the Brexit decision.

Research philosophy

Research Philosophy tends to form a basic guidance for a particular researcher in order to conduct a research. As per the opinion of Mohajan (2018), positivism philosophy has been chosen for this particular research because it seeks to help test various hypotheses that are formed in a research and understand the deeper meaning that are embedded within them.

Research approach

In this research there has been a stress upon deductive research approach in order to understand in detail Brexit’s impact upon small and medium scale enterprises. According to the opinion of Babii (2020), deductive research approaches have been particularly taken up in this scenario because it helps to find relationships between various different concepts as well as that of diverse variables.

Data collection

Secondary qualitative data collection methods have been taken up for this particular research. This means that major thrust has mainly been upon understanding this topic with help from various journals. According to the opinion of Papachristos(2018), journal analysis has taken up this research because it tends to be extremely helpful in clarifying certain key terms for that of a particular researcher. This data collection method helps a researcher to expand their knowledge base regarding various different terminologies and current trends that are affecting this particular topic.

Ethical Consideration

This research has been done by citing the names of all those authors whose work have been taken into consideration for conducting this particular research.

Project schedule

Figure: Ganttchart of the Research Tasks

(Source: MS Project)

This project has been done by dividing up different associated tasks of t5his project into numerous phases. This project will start on 1st january,2022 and it is going to end by 18th December 2023 the initial phase of this project includes meeting up of various different stakeholders to draw up a project plan. The next stage is associated with reviewing literature, the time limit for which is set out for 90 days. In this phase researchers tend to analyze different journals as well as that of other literary sources that are available relating to this particular topic. Methodology section comes in third phase; w3here researcher tends to describe a general method that has been selected to conduct this research. This is going to take around a period of 60 days. In the fourth phase there is going to be a general discussion of various results that have come up through this particular research. This is to take around 120 days where various key findings of this particular research are to be sorted out. The fifth phase is associated with submission of a project proposal that has been generated after a thorough discussion. This is going to take around a period of 30 days.

Tutor’s approval is to be sought out in the sixth stage which is going to take up a period of about 30 days. The main part of this project comes up in the 7th stage where a student is actually going to write up this project.  This is going to take up a long time of around 120 days. The 8th stage is concerned about drawing up the final draft for this particular project work. This is scheduled to take around a period of 45 days. The 9th or the last task is concerned mainly with that of final submission of this project work. This is going to take around a period of 30 days.

Key Deliverables of this Project

• This project is going to make an analysis of various different factors that are currently influencing various Small and Medium scale industries
• This project also focuses upon understanding the relationship between Brexit decisions and interregional disparities that have cropped up in the post-Brexit situation.
• Variation of impact of Brexit decisions across different industries has also been highlighted in this research. This is going to be helpful for finding out different specific policies that are going to be helpful in solving problems that have been faced by certain industries.

Potential risks of the project

• This project is going to be done upon a self-financed platform thus, there can be risks associated in those scenarios when any financial source backs out in last minute.
• The issue of Brexit is quite comprehensive as it includes various different industries that are spread across numerous different sectors. The Small and Medium scale industries are spread across various actors of the United Kingdom’s economy. Getting hold of various authentic data for so vast a subject is very challenging as any faulty data can mar entire research procedures.
• This research is going to be time consuming as it focuses upon a vast topic of Brexit’s impact upon various small and medium scale industries. The researcher needs to make a proper plan for ensuring timely completion of this research.

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