Foreign MBA: Potential Managers for American International Corporations
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The foreign MBAs comprise an almost untapped recruitment source of international personnel. Only a few of the foreign MBAs receive employment offers although many of them are willing to be employed in the U.S. international firms. INTRODUCTION
One of the significant areas of growth in the U.S. economy during the past fifteen years has been the emergence and development of multinational business operations.1Throughout these years of experience there have been many influencing factors affecting the economic efficiency of these expanding American international corporations. They now realize that legal restrictions on the forms of foreign investments are not the only limiting factors to a successful operation. More powerful constraints are nationalistic and social feelings.2 It is important for the American businessmen to recognize that each country must be dealt with individually and independently, and that every effort must be made by the American international corporations to "appear indigenous to the country within which they operate."3 This effects a pressing need for international personnel who are accustomed to American management philosophy, techniques, and objectives as well as culturally empathic, socially understanding, and responsible to local needs.4 *Professor Alpander is a member of the faculty of the College of Business Administration of the University of Maine at Orono. 'James C. Baker, "Problems of the Wives of American Expatriate Managers" (Paper presented at the 1972 National Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Minnesota, 1972), p. 1. 2Sol M. Linowitz, "Why Invest in Latin America?" Harvard Business Review, IV (January-February, 1971). For further examples, see issues of Time, Aug. 3, 1970; Nov. 2, 1970; Feb. 15, 1971; and Feb. 22, 1971. 3David Hitchin and Steven Altman, eds., International Business Management. A Consideration of Selected Corporate Policies and Overseas Business Opportunities (School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1970), p. 26. 4JamesC. Baker and John M. Ivancevich, "Multi-National Management Staffing With American Expatriates," Economic and Business Bulletin, XXIII (Fall, 1970), 35. 1
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In past years the policy in staffing overseas executive positions has been the employment of men from the home office. Recently, the trend, although slow in picking up momentum, is towards recruiting local nationals and third-country nationals.5 This research brings into focus a specific source of managerial talent for American international corporations, composed of foreign students who have received their MBAs in the United States. Analysis delves into the sociological and behavioral characteristics of these foreign MBAs as well as into their aspirations and plans for future employment. Results from an investigation of the American international firms' corporate recruitment patterns of the foreign MBA
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