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- Title
Beyond beauty contests: Benchmarking undergraduate international business education programs according to best practice adoption.
- Authors
Dahan, Nicolas M.; Di Gregorio, Dante; Seeton, Anthony; Hadani, Michael
- Abstract
It is rather confusing that the USNWR listing of the most elite IB undergraduate programs in the United States could include schools that do not have an IB program at all, as well as ones that feature only minimal offerings in IB. We did count any required introductory course to IB, even if it is part of the business core for all business majors, as some schools do not have a required introductory IB course for their business students, so having this foundational course before taking the IB program-specific courses does give students a head start, and the ability to go more in depth as soon as they start taking their IB program courses, compared to a school where the IB students must begin the program without any prior knowledge. In some cases, schools require a co-major alongside the IB major (i.e., students must double major) because graduates are more career-ready thanks to this second specialization, either in a functional field (e.g., IB major plus marketing major) or geographical/language area (e.g., IB major plus Japanese major). Analogous to the way firm-level internationalization has been measured along breadth and depth (e.g., Sullivan, [55]; Gerard Sanders & Carpenter, [23] for depth; Zahra, Ireland & Hitt, [63] for breadth), we propose that most measures will reflect IB program depth (i.e., extensive coverage within the field of IB) or IB program breadth (i.e., diversity of options across disciplinary boundaries and/or geographic areas). Notwithstanding substantial faculty achievements in IB scholarship and program recognitions, the school was worried that its IB graduates were not being adequately prepared for their professional careers, and placement was an ongoing issue.
- Subjects
BUSINESS education; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; BEAUTY contests; BUSINESS networks; BEST practices
- Publication
Thunderbird International Business Review, 2019, Vol 61, Issue 6, p961
- ISSN
1096-4762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/tie.22072