<b>A survey on publications about the internationalization of college institutions

Abstract

Considering the increasing interest of major international educational groups in developing countries and specifically in Brazil, it is critical to understand what is being discussed about it by researchers from the Business Administration field, since this movement directly affects the strategies of local college institutions. This study aimed to contribute to future studies on strategies of local college institutions, providing a survey of publications of the last five years (2009-2013) on the internationalization of college institutions, in some major national events and national and international journals of the Business Administration. Based on secondary data, the descriptive-qualitative research presents few quantitative data. The results indicate that there is a lack of studies in this subject which shows that the subject does not receive due attention in this area. Except for one article, the others selected to this research did not focus on analyzing the movement of internationalization that occurs with the arrival of foreign players in the Brazilian college market, but on the internationalization movements of the local college institutions, mainly those with an academic motivation. We conclude that this subject, given the present circumstances, deserves further exploration within the Business Administration research area.