Posted: April 6th, 2016

Intranets and extranets are becoming less important to businesses.

The objective is to agree or disagree with the stated hypothesis (Intranets and extranets are becoming less important to businesses.) by locating at least seven sources (references), from periodicals, books, or journals to document a position. The sources, not your personal opinion, will determine that position. Internet sources are not acceptable; however, the Internet may be used to locate material. Sources will be less than seven (7) years old. They will be identified in a reference list arranged in alphabetical order and attached to the project paper. Using the course text as an example, a reference list entry will mirror the first two lines of the required text paragraph above starting with Laudon: Laudon, K.C. & Laudon, J.P. (2016). Management Information Systems Managing the Digital Firm (14th ed.). Pearson Education Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ:
The research project will consist of at least eight paragraphs. A paragraph for each source, summarizing its content, a concluding paragraph incorporating the important points from each source and a restatement of the original hypothesis, and the reference list. Grading will be based on source applicability and content. Each summary and concluding paragraph will contain appropriate in-text citations. Citations in the text of the research project and in the summary paragraph will appear directly after the cited information. Using the textbook as an example, the in-text citation would be (Laudon and Laudon (2016)).