Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1851621
Anne Marie Zwerg-Villegas, G. Hiller
ABSTRACT Experiential learning (EL) projects require planning, patience, and commitment on the part of the organizing and facilitating instructors. Language, culture, time zone, and institutional diversity exacerbates the inherent difficulties in conducting virtual, international EL projects. This manuscript discusses an ongoing multi-country project between a prestigious private university in the United States and several Latin American university contributors to execute a joint student experiential learning consulting project. The authors develop an intuitive instructor-focused jobs demands-resources model of involvement in international, virtual, experiential learning projects and triangulate the propositions with extant literature, interview responses in the ongoing case project, and survey data from participants in a similar project.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1851625
E. Suárez, Agata Michalska Haduch
ABSTRACT This paper describes a collaborative model of international learning where students from classes in universities across countries collaborate to jointly work on a common project. The paper follows the partnership formed by a course taught in the US and one in Mexico under the COIL model, where participating students are paired up with counterparts in a related business course in a university in another country. By joining these two classes in a team-taught effort, participating professors form international teams with half the students from each institution. The teams are then responsible for developing an international company’s business plan, of import/export companies or expansions into a Latin American market, with realistic resulting documents that are presented in meetings on the campuses of both participating universities. The international student groups from both universities negotiate and collaborate on their projects online, sealing their hypothetical deals when they present them jointly in Mexico and the USA. The classes have been made possible by partnerships of professors at an American University and two Universities in Mexico. These collaborations have happened in ten semesters, from the spring of 2003 until the fall of 2019, with more than one professor participating from each institution. Because these joint classes were taught by different professors, we claim that the benefits of the pedagogical model can be replicated and institutionalized. The paper discusses issues facing those interested in developing a similar course pairing, and describes choices to be made in the process of giving birth to such a collaboration.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1851622
Benjamin K. Blevins, Guadalupe C. Ramírez, J. Wight
ABSTRACT Using a case study, this paper explores the pedagogy and logistical best practices of leading short-term study trips to the indigenous highlands of Guatemala. The goals of community-engagement are to have students: 1) interact with people of different cultural, linguistic, political, and economic world views, expanding their range of diversity-training; and 2) think critically about poverty and human agency in a global context. Logistical considerations are a key component of the learning experience when markets suffer from asymmetric information and moral hazard. This paper contributes to the literature by highlighting the ways that planning, programming, and logistics need to be woven into sustainable approaches to community engagement. For this to be an ethical endeavor, local peoples should be involved with the development and execution of the program. A barrier to learning can be a perception by students that, given their comparative economic privilege, they are there to “help” poor families. Students learn from host families about a different and holistic worldview, and gain insights into business development and its barriers. After the trip, students have a new way of thinking about diversity, agency, and workable approaches to ethical and sustainable self-help business developments.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1851626
R. Scherer, E. Suárez
The Latin American and Spanish landscapes are increasingly important for international business education. As globalization settles into its 21st century equilibrium, international business transac...
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1851623
M. Gil, María Reyes
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether an international short-term trip helps students to develop a global mind-set. A quantitative and qualitative analysis was carried out with students at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico) who did a one-week international trip to New York. The results suggest that the international short-term trip further developed the global mind-set of business students. Furthermore, professional aspirations and networking skills, which were also developed during the short-term international trip, act as amplifiers in the development of a global mind-set.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1831422
Amily Dongshuo Wang Guénier
ABSTRACT This study presents a course design that integrates multimodal sounds, pictures, videos, student presentations, guest speakers, and group work into a multimodal course to enhance intercultural communication competence into a high-profile business training course. The course is tailor-made for 488 managers and staff in one of the world's top 10 banks whose branch is based in London. Innovative experiential techniques are embedded in the course to meet their professional needs. The evaluation from the participants suggested that the course was highly useful and challenging, which produced a positive impact on the trainees’ intercultural awareness and empathy in terms of more affective commitment, better behavioral performance and enhanced cognitive curiosity in intercultural business communication (IBC). The innovative ideas of the course design, examples of good practice and integrated multimodal pedagogy have paved the way for other colleagues designing and delivering similar courses.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1831424
R. Sureka, Naveen Donthu, Satish Kumar
ABSTRACT The Journal of Teaching in International Business (JTIB) is a dedicated and premier platform for research on teaching international business. This study presents a comprehensive overview of the papers published in JTIB between 1989 and 2019 through bibliometric methods. Using data from Scopus database, the publications were analyzed, applying a range of bibliometric techniques, such as descriptive analysis, bibliographic coupling analysis, coauthorship analysis, and keyword analysis. The study further explores the thematic structure of the journal with 4 clusters identified as international business education, international business curriculum, experiential learning and technology, and cross-cultural issues. It highlights the temporal progression of the research constituents and the substantive areas in the journal. Thus, this study will provide meaningful insights to scholars of the discipline. Moreover, it is the first attempt to summarize the publications of JTIB.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1831423
P. Sinclair, Dongyan Blachford
ABSTRACT This paper examines a remarkable artifact of international business education, a four-book business Chinese language series published in Shanghai from 1916 to 1933 by a Japanese business school. Language-centered business education, they concluded, could break Japanese dependence on intermediaries and provide a significant competitive advantage over their western competitors. We carefully tabulate the main content of each chapter in this textbook series and draw on the theory of Situated Learning for our analysis. We find specific lessons in this historical content for teachers, business faculties, and government agencies currently tasked with improving today’s international business programming with respect to the dynamic Chinese business environment.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1831421
K. Crowne
ABSTRACT Using Hofstede’s classification of national culture, this article examines whether culture influences peer evaluation of performance on global virtual teams (GVTs). Two separate analyses were conducted based on the hypotheses developed. The first analysis included close to 8,000 students and the second included over 3,000 students, all who participated on GVTs through X-Culture, a 10-week GVT project. Results indicated that the cultural variables had a weak effect on peer assessment of performance, and the most influential variable on performance was English language ability. This article is particularly timely due to the increased use of GVTs in the business world, which has led to calls for more use of virtual teams to be incorporated into course work. Furthermore, the use of GVTs benefits students because it helps them develop global competencies without having to complete a study abroad.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1841855
R. Aggarwal, Yinglu Wu
Cross-Border communication is important in international business activity. Such communication has been greatly facilitated by technology in recent times. The costs of international phone calls, vi...
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