O Entendimento De Estratégia Por Estudantes De Administração A Partir De Simulação De Negócios

• Published in: Revista eletrônica de ciência administrativa Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 171 - 196
• Main Authors: Uajará Pessoa Araújo, Laíse Ferraz Correia, de Brito, Mozar José, Hudson Fernandes Amaral
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Campo Largo Faculdade Cenecista de Campo Largo - FACECLA 01-09-2017
• Subjects: Business education; Business simulation; Content analysis; Education in management; Ensino de administração; Ensino de estratégia; Experiential learning; Simulation; Simulação de negócios; Students; Teaching methods; Teaching strategy
• ISSN: 1677-7387; 1677-7387
• DOI: 10.21529/RECADM.2017014

The business simulation is an interesting tool for active experimental learning used in business courses in order to bring together theory and practice, comprising the knowledge of strategy. In this case study, we analyze this capability into a constructivist perspective, distinguishing our work from others that focus on the effectiveness of these business games. Once established the coherence between the study’s purpose and its epistemological approach of learning, taken as a mental effort that is at the same time social and personal, this paper attempted to reveal which concepts of strategy the students internalize after a business game course. We carried out a content analysis of the texts written by the students in their final exam. The results, while showing the possibilities of agency problems in the course, led the research team to conclude that students set partial dimensions of strategy, conceived as: mutual construction, management of errors, course of action, intention, path dependence and learned lessons, which were put together as a possible collective discourse built from individual fragments.