THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS BASED ON FACULTY ACTIVITIES: EXPLANATIONS FROM THE SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY/Internacionalizacao de Escolas de Negocios baseada nas atividades dos academicos: Elucidacoes trazidas pela Teoria da Troca Social/La internacionalización de las Escuelas de Negocios a partir de las actividades de los académicos: Aclaraciones aportadas por la teoría del intercambio social

The internationalization of higher education has gained in theoretical and empirical importance in recent decades. In this context, this article aims to describe and analyze the internationalization of business schools from the activities of their academics and based on the propositions defended by the Social Exchange Theory (SET). To achieve our goal we conducted 39 interviews with academics from business schools in the United States and Brazil, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and University of Sao Paulo (USP). We found that: (i) there are individual rewards that are not addressed by SET; (ii) there are benefits to third parties not covered by SET; (iii) certain non-rational choices are not provided by SET; and (iv) the condition of equivalence between costs and rewards provided by SET has its weaknesses. With these findings we add theoretical and empirical contributions to our theme. KEYWORDS | Internationalization in higher education, academics, social exchange theory, business schools, international activities. A internacionalizacao do ensino superior vem ganhando importancia teorica e empirica nas decadas recentes. Nesse contexto, este artigo objetiva descrever e analisar a internacionalizacao de escolas de negocios a partir das atividades dos academicos e com base nas proposicoes defendidas pela Teoria da Troca Social (SET, do ingles Social Exchange Theory). Para atingir nosso objetivo, conduzimos 39 entrevistas com academicos de escolas de negocios dos Estados Unidos e do Brasil, incluindo Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts (MIT), Harvard, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) e Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP). Temos como principais achados: (i) existem recompensas individuais que nao sao abordadas pela SET; (ii) ha beneficios para outras partes interessadas que nao sao contemplados pela SET; (iii) ha certas decisoes nao racionais nao previstas pela SET; (iv) e a condicao de equivalencia entre custos e recompensas prevista pela SET apresenta fragilidades. Com esses resultados, trazemos contribuicoes teoricas e empiricas para a tematica. PALAVRAS-CHAVE | Internacionalizacao do ensino superior, educacao internacional, academicos, social exchange theory, escolas de negocios, atividades internacionais. La internacionalizacion de la educacion superior ha ganado importancia teorica y empirica en las ultimas decadas. En este contexto, este articulo tiene como objetivo describir y analizar la inter