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The Acquisition of Experience in a Complex Management Game

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  • William R. Dill

    (Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

  • Neil Doppelt

    (Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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This study was undertaken to evaluate a complex management simulation exercise as an environment for learning. The exercise was the Carnegie Tech Management Game; the players were students in a graduate management program who played the game. Players reported learning many kinds of things from their experience, but learning derived more from interpersonal interactions with other players and with outside groups like boards of directors than from interaction with the game model itself. Players may learn more about recognizing problems for future attention than about solutions of problems that can be applied in new situations. The kinds and amounts of learning vary with the length of game play, with team success or failure, and with individual job assignment on the team. They do not vary with measures of status on the team.

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  • William R. Dill & Neil Doppelt, 1963. "The Acquisition of Experience in a Complex Management Game," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 10(1), pages 30-46, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:10:y:1963:i:1:p:30-46
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.10.1.30
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    1. Mie Augier & Michael Prietula, 2007. "Perspective---Historical Roots of the A Behavioral Theory of the Firm Model at GSIA," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 18(3), pages 507-522, June.
    2. Marion S. Rauner & Helmut Niessner & Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger & Natasa Peric & Teresa Herdlicka, 2016. "A policy management game for mass casualty incidents: an experimental study," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 28(1), pages 336-365, June.
    3. David C. Lane & Birgit Kopainsky & Hendrik Stouten & Hans Polet & Aimé Heene & Xavier Gellynck, 2017. "Learning from Collaboratively Playing with Simulation Models in Policy Making: An Experimental Evaluation in Fisheries Management," Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 403-413, July.

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