To meet the increased demand for international business education that prepares college
students for studying, living, or working overseas, I propose a four-stage reflective …

Teaching and learning can be effective in a number of ways–some of them superficial with
short survival half-lives and others reaching quite deeply into students minds with much …

December 2007 are themselves capable of achieving intended development. In much of our
experience, tools and resources alone have proved inadequate for embedding change and …

Understanding how businesses function in relation to cultural and societal influences is
critical for today's business leader who wants to interact competently across borders …

This article outlines a taxonomy of skills necessary for cross-cultural learning based on
Kolb's experiential learning theory. Review of the empirical literature on expatriate …

This article describes the “Cross-cultural Assignment,” an experiential learning technique for
students of business that deepens self-awareness of their own attitudes toward different …

In no other discipline is experiential learning more important than in the complex field of
International Business (IB), which aims to prepare students to work and manage across …

Background Business educators have advocated that in order to build faculty's intercultural
capability, it is vital to provide them with professional development in using intercultural …

This paper evaluates the adaptation of the ExcelL Intercultural Skills Program to an
international human resource management course, and critically examines the effectiveness …

Increasing diversity in business education and practice has created two key priorities for
educators: how to integrate new student groups, most notably from China and the Far East …