TNC Research Assignment: Identifying your TNC

Assignment Goals

1.  Familiarize yourself with the websites of some TNCs

2.  Begin to get a sense of how TNCs present themselves, and how they are talked about in popular discourse

3.  Decide what company you will be studying and why you want to study it.

Assignment Instructions

1. Read the ‘Choosing Your TNC’ guidelines below.
2. Review at least 7 websites from the Research Resources file  Try to view a broad selection from the different categories in the file.
3. Review the web sites of TNC’s (a minimum of 5 total):
   1. Browse the top 50 Fortune 500 companies.  Look up the home page for 2-3 of them.
   2. Look up the web site for 1-2 products that you own or regularly use or shops that you regularly visit that you really, really, really love.
   3. Look up the company web site for some product that you really wish you could have but can’t for some reason or another (a Ferrari, Stealth Aircraft, whatever).

Submission

1. Submit a short statement (maximum 2 paragraphs) that answers the questions below.  At the top of the page, type the name of the company you will be researching in bold print.

a) What are one or two of the more interesting things you found looking at the links on the Research Resources page?  Did you find anything unexpected or surprising?

b) What TNC will you be researching throughout the quarter?  What does it make/do?  Why are you choosing it?