Title: Learning teamwork knowledge, skills and abilities: business simulation vs. case studies

Authors: Víctor Martín-Pérez; Natalia Martín-Cruz; María Pilar Pérez-Santana

Addresses: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Organización de Empresas y C.I.M., Universidad de Valladolid, Avda. Valle Esgueva, 6, 47011 Valladolid, Spain ' Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Organización de Empresas y C.I.M., Universidad de Valladolid, Avda. Valle Esgueva, 6, 47011 Valladolid, Spain ' Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Organización de Empresas y C.I.M., Universidad de Valladolid, Avda. Valle Esgueva, 6, 47011 Valladolid, Spain

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to compare Business Simulations (BS) vs. case studies in terms of teamwork Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) improvement, specifically those identified by Stevens and Campion (1994). With this aim, we conducted an analysis with a group of 51 students of a compulsory Corporate Strategy course at the Business School of the University of Valladolid during the 2006 academic year. We assessed student teamwork KSAs at two different times - before and after participation of part of students in BS. Results show that BS is more effective at improving student teamwork KSAs than case studies.

Keywords: teamwork; business simulations; teams; KSAs; knowledge skills abilities; case studies; Michael Stevens; Michael Campion; corporate strategy; business schools; University of Valladolid; universities; higher education; Spain; student participation; experiments; education management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2013.056657

International Journal of Management in Education, 2013 Vol.7 No.4, pp.376 - 392

Published online: 13 Sep 2014 *

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