This is a paper that focuses on managerial learning as looked from the viewpoint of simulation games as a method that could be helpful to form professional identities capable of self-questioning and of development of a systemic thinking. Its basic premise is that educational as well as training activities are active sources for the development of agents of organizational learning and that methodologies have distinctive impacts on attainment of such objectives. So that this discussion could began, the article presents an exploratory research with graduate students who have participated in simulation games during their educational preparation. In general terms, one concludes that simulations are methods capable of fostering double-loop learning but not so much learning of instrumental objetives.
simulations; simulation games; managerial learning
