A retrospective of international business education in the United States over the past fifty years

✍ Scribed by Voris, William

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1997
• Weight: 788 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-6652
• DOI: 10.1002/tie.5060390211

✦ Synopsis

International business relationships are almost as old as mankind, but the idea that people needed to be educated to manage global business enterprises is less than 60 years old. The American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird), established in 1946 was the first school to provide languages, international studies, and business management as a basic education in international management. Business schools in America have been slow to realize and to promulgate courses and curriculums in the field. It has only been in the last ten years that the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, composed of over 700 colleges and universities in the country, has become an advocate through a revision in its standards. After the words "and worldwide" were inserted in the AACSB standards of accreditation, international business education began to permeate the offerings of American business schools.