Foreign Language Use Among International Business Graduates

Richard D. Lambert

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1990, vol. 511, issue 1, 47-59

Abstract: American business is constantly being urged to employ more executives who can operate successfully abroad in one or another foreign language. Nonetheless, the employment prospects for Americans with foreign language competences remain relatively low. To both meet and stimulate that limited demand, several business schools have instituted programs that combine general business courses with foreign language training and international studies. This article reports on a survey of 600 graduates of three of the best-known international business programs of this type. The purpose of the survey was to determine the importance of a foreign language competence in the careers of these specially trained business school graduates.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716290511001004

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