Abstract
Global capitalism requires a world of manageable differences. U.S. business schools train MBA students in the reckoning of international space as a field of risk and opportunity. Focusing particularly on the short-term study-abroad trips that have become a staple of MBA training in the past decade, I examine the role of international knowledge and experience as a constitutive part of the managerial selves contemporary capitalism is explicitly thought to require. Through these and other internationalizing experiences, I argue, MBAs learn to manage the margins: converting the risks and uncertainties of social and cultural differences into value.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 689-703 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | American Ethnologist |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2013 |
Keywords
- Area studies
- Business subjectivities
- Capitalism
- Commensuration
- Education
- Globalization
- International business
- Locality
- Management
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology