Journal of Management Education

For all the contradiction of the present-day world, for all the diversity of social and political systems in it, and for all the different choices made by the nations in different times, this world is never-the-less one whole. We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

-Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika (1987, p. 12)

Internationalization is the incorporation of international contents, materials, activities and understandings into the teaching, research, and public service functions of universities to enhance their relevance in an interdependent world. (Definition adopted at the conference on Internationalizing U.S. Universities: A Time for Leadership, Spokane, WA, June 5–7, 1990)