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Assignment -

Project Objective - Prepare a literature review about an evaluation of the role of SRM in the working of a business organisation and its essentiality for survival in the competitive business environment. This review will show the equality of importance to supplier and buyer as they both are essential to run a successful business. The main objective of this literature review is to do a comparative analysis on Supplier Relationship Management with the help of different articles and sources. A critical analysis will be done on SRM with the help of key ideas or arguments given by different authors and also with the support of the identification of similarities, differences, and conclusions on SRM given by these authors.

Assignment Requirements - follow below Assignment structure:

1. Introduction

2. Project Objective

3. Project Scope

4. Literature Review (Needs to summarise Assignment 1 literature review (2-3 pages) and justification from Assignment 1 literature problems, gaps opportunities, Hypothesis)

5. Research Questions/Hypothesis

- Primary Question (only one question)

- Secondary Questions (1, 2 ....)

Research questions should be linked to Literature Problems, Gaps, and Hypothesis

6. Research Design and Methodology

- Qualitative research

(Should propose the Process of the Qualitative Research (Main Steps), Approaches to reliability and Validity, Sampling, Sample Size, Data Collection Method, Variables Specifications)

- Quantitative research

(Should propose the process of the Quantitative Research Design Process (Main Steps), Research Instrument, Quantitative Data Analysis Process, Sampling and Simple Size, Interviewing and Questionary Design, Reliability and Validity of Data)

7. Research Limitations

8. Time Schedule (Research plan)

9. Conclusion

10. Reference List

11. Appendix

NOTE: Students are not with requirements to collect and analyse data.