Learning Decision Making through Management Games
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This paper deals with the use and development of management games. A management game is a session where the groups of players form fictive companies to operate at fictive markets. The market operations are carried out by using a special computer software. The objective is to enhance the players’ decision making skills and the insight of the industry. Management games are used mainly in teaching purposes, but they may also be appropriate planning tools when used as simulation or what-if models.
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