ABSTRACT
This chapter examines what happens after the decision has been taken to implement a corporate university (CU) – local educational provider partnership scheme as part of a strategic human resource management programme. The partnership project was launched in 2000 and went through a series of stages. The stages include: the fun of conceptualization, implementation, institutionalization, wildcard, and learning to swim. The implementation of a partnership between a CU and local educational providers can encounter a variety of real-world obstacles. The chapter focuses on an experiment in the internationalization of the curriculum to an Asian country famous for its large population, large industrial base, poor infrastructure, delayed entry into the global marketplace, frustrating corruption and extremely large groupings of poverty. Although major strides in industrialization have taken place, the rapid growth of global capabilities in communication, transportation, infrastructure and business transaction have continued to leave countries like this one behind in absolute as well as relative terms.
