International business education (IBE) scholarship is extensive and is continuously growing.
Nevertheless, to date there is no systems perspective overview of the literature dedicated to …

In the past decade, study abroad programs (SAPs) have more than doubled, where today,
about 223,000 US college students study abroad, immersing themselves in foreign …

This article presents a study to help bolster existing study abroad research by comparing the
global-mindedness of student participants at three private universities' study abroad …

This paper analyzes the relationship between students' motivations and their intention to
participate in study abroad programs using a model based on expectancy theory. We …

This study seeks to understand the impact of studying abroad on business students and their
career plans to determine whether study abroad experiences are all “hype,” or if they have …

The demands of today's global economy underscore the importance of experiential learning
in the field of tourism. Two increasingly popular forms of experiential learning are study …

Short-term overseas study tours serve as a means of developing students' global
competencies. The authors conducted pre-departure and post-return focus groups with three …

Changes in ethnocentrism, intercultural communication apprehension, international
awareness and activities were examined in business students participating in a 16-day …

Despite significant increases in international business education, and cultural competence
in particular, in US classrooms we still know relatively little about the roles of specific cultural …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a practical, effective method of teaching short-term
study abroad courses to increase students' global awareness and lay the foundation for the …