SIMULATION-BASED INTERNATIONALISATION AT HOME: Intercultural Teamwork and Professional Readiness in Business Education

Internationalisation at home (IaH) is widely used in business education to prepare students for culturally diverse workplaces, yet multicultural group work often fails to generate meaningful intercultural learning. This extended abstract describes a qualitative, theory-informed study examining how a diversity-oriented online simulation, embedded in a core management course, supports students’ learning about intercultural teamwork and professional readiness. Grounded in intercultural competence scholarship and experiential learning theory, the study focuses on how simulation-based experience, conceptual input, and structured reflection are deliberately sequenced as a pedagogical design. The submission highlights the design logic, theoretical grounding, and anticipated contribution of the study and invites feedback on the framing of key learning outcomes, the clarity of the pedagogical contribution, and the transferability of simulation-based internationalisation-at-home designs across management education contexts.