Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Publication Title

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

Volume

11

Issue

1

Pages

6-11

Abstract

North American Schools of Business have been “going global” by transplanting pedagogy and content to Asia and Africa for several centuries. From a teaching perspective, our western schools look to these regions as contexts to provide richness to our students’ educational experience, to prepare Americans for dealings in the global business marketplace, and often to increase our own enrollments and revenues. To date we have served as “exporters” of our own Western brand of MBA education.

Using an ethnographic approach of participant observation gained through two years of teaching and living in China supplemented with interviews with Chinese students studying in the U.S., this paper suggests an alternative view. China in particular and Asia in general present a different viewpoint of leadership, motivation, team-work and MBA education in general. The paper suggests an alternative viewpoint to higher education and a series of concepts and ideas that can be “imported” into western business education from the Middle Kingdom.

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Author Posting © Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2016. This article is posted here by permission of the Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Alberto Hurtado for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Journal of Technology Management & Innovation , Vol. 11, Iss. 1, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-27242016000100002

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