THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS BASED ON FACULTY ACTIVITIES: EXPLANATIONS FROM THE SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY

ABSTRACT The internationalization of higher education has gained in theoretical and empirical importance recent decades. In this context, article aims to describe analyze the business schools from activities their academics based on propositions defended by Social Exchange Theory (SET). To achieve our goal we conducted 39 interviews with United States Brazil, including Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT), Harvard, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) University Sao Paulo (USP). We found that: (i) there are individual rewards that not addressed SET; (ii) benefits third parties covered (iii) certain non-rational choices provided (iv) condition equivalence between costs SET its weaknesses. With these findings add contributions theme.