How Do We Know Where we're going if we don't Know Where We Have Been: A Review of Business Simulation Research

Authors

  • S. Dolly Malik
  • Barbara J. Howard

Abstract

One of the themes of the 1996 ABSEL meetings is to focus on the future of business simulations. Often, in order to examine where the future is going to take you, it is necessary to examine the past. With this in mind, we undertake a review of literature relevant to understanding where the field currently stands with respect to business simulations. Our examination of the literature from 1985 to 1995 focused on articles related to business simulations that fell into the following categories: reviews on different aspects of business simulations; research on both the external and internal validity of business simulations; research examining the effectiveness of simulations as a learning tool; the examination of the individual factors and group processes involved in playing the simulation. We will review the literature pertaining to each category.

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Published

1996-03-06