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Article: Incorporating Online Auction Selling in an Agribusiness Capstone Course
- Article from:
- NACTA Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Mar 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
Adopting online auction selling in an agribusiness capstone course provides students with actual hands-on experience in making agribusiness management and marketing decisions like those faced by brick and mortar agribusiness manufacturers/retailers. The objectives of this paper are to: 1) identify various management and marketing decisions faced by online auction student sellers; 2) provide a brief discussion of the associated business and/or economic decisions that need to be made; 3) identify agribusiness teaching principles associated with student seller decisions; 4) provide suggestions for incorporating online auction selling in an agribusiness capstone course; and 5) provide ...