MNE3702 Assignment 2 (QUALITY ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the MNE3702 Assignment 2 (QUALITY ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025. For assistance whats-app us on 0.6.8..8.1.2..0.9.3.4.. Question 1 Describe the concept entrepreneurial intensity and indicate by means of examples how it is practiced at Dell. (12) Question 2 Today organizations are confronted with dynamic, threatening, and complex changes in the external environment, and have been forced to adapt. There are four flexible rules which enhance a venture’s chance of remaining adaptive and innovative, both through and beyond the growth stage. Identify and explain each of these rules and highlight how these rules relate to Dell. (8) Question 3 Companies go through an organizational life cycle as they evolve. Griener (1972) suggests that often, at some stage during this cycle, companies lose their entrepreneurial way. Identify the fifth and final stage of Griener’s Organisational Life Cycle Process. Describe this stage and indicate what changes must be made by Dell to ensure a continued existence of the company. (5) Question 4 Step II (two) of the Entrepreneurial Health Audit is Diagnosing the Climate for Corporate Entrepreneurship. During this step, a Corporate Entrepreneurship Climate Instrument (CECI) is used. Describe five key antecedents the CECI is designed around. (5) MNE3702 Assignment 2 6 Question 5 Entrepreneurial imperatives are those aspects of strategic leadership that are inherently entrepreneurial in that they relate to the recognition and/or exploitation of opportunity. Discuss five entrepreneurial imperatives of executive management at Dell (5) and indicate (5) how the executives are tasked with this. (10) Question 6 Briefly explain what external challenges Dell is likely to face in their core Human Resources (HR) function. (10)