![]() ![]() Essays are found useful for measuring conceptual understanding, and the studies also show that the appearance and development of conceptual understanding differ from student to student. Students’ conceptual understanding of international business can be defined in terms of knowledge components and professional characteristics that have to do with global and local contexts, general and specific business practices and theoretical concepts. It comprises five empirical studies conducted within one university of applied sciences in the Netherlands. This dissertation investigates the definition of conceptual understanding in this professional domain, how it can be measured, what it looks like, how it changes, and in what ways it differs between students. The development of conceptual understanding is important to deal adequately with this complexity, especially in an unstructured professional domain such as international business. Higher professional education aims to prepare graduates for the complexity of professional practices.
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