Faculty International Human Capital as a Resource of Competitive Advantage in Business Schools. The Case of a Mexican Private School

The second study analyzes the faculty human capital resources involved in the international activities carried out by 83 UDEM´s business schools faculties, together with a description of faculty groups based upon the findings. The study developed a faculty internationalization survey based on service and higher education literature. It considers the Resource Based View (RBV) theory and human capital literature which assume that human capital may be a source of competitive advantage for institutions. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to grouped research quantitative variables, followed, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) to reduce the number of the rest of nominal variables related to research, and teaching abroad programs. Subsequently, we chose the two-step cluster analysis technique in order to group faculty according to international factors obtained from the PCA and MCA together with other faculty demographic variables such as type of contract and department. We obtained three dimensions of faculty internationalization: research dimension with discrete data, research, teaching and education/training dimension with nominal and dichotomous variables, and organization and participation on students´ academic trips abroad nominal and dichotomous variables. The clustering analysis with object scores method was used to identify groups sharing similar characteristics. Our results led to the definition and identification of three faculty groups according their human capital resources related to internationalization.