Agribusiness Capstone Courses Design: Objectives and Strategies

This paper discusses the benefits of using strategic management principles as the cornerstone for building the agribusiness capstone experience. The necessity for agribusiness firms to create and implement strategies that build a sustainable competitive advantage in turn necessitates the development of strategic management skills in the leaders/managers of the future. As such, the objectives of a capstone course lean heavily toward the integrative development of strategic decision-making competence. This has a number of implications for the capstone professor in terms of course content, pedagogies, and subsequent measurement of student performance.

本文探讨了将战略管理原则作为构建农业综合企业顶点课程体验基石的益处。农业综合企业创建并实施能建立可持续竞争优势的战略的必要性，反过来又要求未来的领导者/管理者发展战略管理技能。因此，顶点课程的目标在很大程度上倾向于战略决策能力的综合培养。这在课程内容、教学方法以及随后对学生表现的衡量方面，对教授顶点课程的教师有诸多影响。