ABSTRACT In today’s integrated global economy, business executives of multinational corporations are required to have a flexible global mindset in order to cope with the driving forces of globalization. Thus, the global market forces stress the importance for business schools to graduate students with skill sets pertinent to functioning competitively in the ever-changing business environment. In this article, we conducted a survey of 165 students in the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University to examine whether international cocurricular activities help achieve the goal of cultivating a global mindset in students. The results suggest that international cocurricular activities enhance students’ global mindset. Short-term study tours and international internships do have a significant impact on students’ global mindset as other long-term cocurricular activities, which may cost more time and money. We recommend that short-term study tours be used as an alternative cost-effective way to engaging business students in the internationalization of the business curriculum at their institutions.

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国际课外活动对商学院学生培养全球思维有影响吗？

摘要在当今一体化的全球经济中，跨国公司的业务主管必须具有灵活的全球思维方式，以应对全球化的驱动力。因此，全球市场力量强调商学院对于具有与在不断变化的商业环境中竞争能力相关的技能的研究生的重要性。在本文中，我们对西雅图大学阿尔伯斯商学院和经济学院的165名学生进行了调查，以研究国际课外活动是否有助于实现培养学生全球思维方式的目标。结果表明，国际课外活动增强了学生的全球思维能力。与其他长期的课外活动一样，短期游学和国际实习确实会对学生的全球思维产生重大影响，这可能会花费更多的时间和金钱。我们建议将短期游学活动作为一种替代性的具有成本效益的方式，以吸引商学院的学生参加其机构中的国际商务课程。