TITLE:
Internationalization of MBA Students’ Career and Academic Life: An Integrating Approach Modeling
AUTHORS:
Fernando de Rosa, Bento Alves da Costa Filho, José Gaspar Nayme Novelli
KEYWORDS:
MBA Student, Career, Business School, Internationalization at Home, Global Skills, Global Mindset
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.7,
July
29,
2022
ABSTRACT: The opportunity for exchange experiences, skills acquisition, and international network has stood out among the MBA students’ priorities. This
paper seeks to build and test a research model that integrates the main
concepts around the internationalization of
MBA students’ career and academic life, in a worldwide perspective. We
proposed a modeling design composed of four fundamental constructs, usually
presented in the literature in an isolated or partially combined manner, but
never in an integrating holistic approach for higher education. A survey was carried out with in progress and former Brazilian MBA students, and the models were tested and validated using Partial Least Squares. The results confirm Internationalization
at Home and Experience Abroad as antecedents to Global Skills and Global
Mindset. These findings can reduce the fragmented vision of the elements
related to the career internationalization and help Institutions and students
to identify the main factors that deliver better global skills and mindset
needed to a global success.