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Management simulators: A tool for fostering experience-based learning of agribusiness management concepts

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  • Roger A. Dahlgran

    (Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Arizona)

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This article examines the role of a management simulator in teaching an agribusiness management course. The use of the simulator is described and the critical issue of the simulator's correspondence with management course content is discussed. A set of requirements for the realization of the maximum net benefits of using a simulator is presented for consideration. The conclusion is that the costs and benefits are neither global nor explicit and should be carefully and subjectively estimated before a decision is made on whether to incorporate a simulation game into an agribusiness management course.

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  • Roger A. Dahlgran, 1987. "Management simulators: A tool for fostering experience-based learning of agribusiness management concepts," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 3(4), pages 403-412.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:agribz:v:3:y:1987:i:4:p:403-412
    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(198724)3:4<403::AID-AGR2720030406>3.0.CO;2-#
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    1. Norbert L.W. Wilson & Robert G. Nelson, 2009. "A Laboratory Science Approach to Teaching in the Agricultural Economics Curriculum," Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 31(2), pages 331-343.

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