Following attendance at a conference of the United States based Executive MBA Council in the year 2000, it was apparent that an increasing number of providers of Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs were including an international study tour component in their programs. / To place this in perspective, in 1994 there were 132 member institutions of the Executive MBA Council. The majority of member institutions were based in the United States. An international study tour component was involved in 73 of the programs with 16 of these optional. In 2001 there were 155 member institutions with an increased number of members from Europe and Asia-Pacific. They provided 194 programs of which 152 included an international study tour with only 10 optional. / In order to address this phenomenon of increasing exposure to global activities through an international study tour, the main purpose of what an MBA is to achieve was investigated. To gain insight into this post-graduate educational program, its genesis and evolution was researched from the literature and a comtemporary ideal type model of an MBA program was generated. / Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2006.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/267072 |
| Creators | Olliver, Murray. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | copyright under review |
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