Article,
A First Life With Computerized Business Simulations
Simulation & Gaming, 42 (3): 372--383 (June 2011)
DOI: 10.1177/1046878110378529
Abstract
The author discusses the theoretical lens, origins, and environment
of his work on computerized business simulations. Key ideas that
inform his work include the two dimensions (control and interaction)
of computerized simulation, the two ways of representing a natural
process (phenotypical and genotypical) in a simulation, which he
defines as a replicable representation of a natural process. The
author touches on his professional activities, summarizes his journal
articles, accounts for his education, and considers two problems
that remain to be resolved: the free rider problem when participants
are assigned to work in teams and the measurement reliability problem
when a business simulation is used for program assessment. He reflects
on the possibility of using business simulation to expand business
education in developing countries.
