Agents Playing the Beer Distribution Game: Solving the Dilemma Through the Drum-Buffer-Rope Methodology

Costas, José; Ponte, Borja; García, David de la Fuente; Lozano, Jesús; Parreño, José María

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45748-2_36

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“…BSGs refer to instructions provided by personal computers to immerse trainees in a manual business environment for decision-making and management knowledge to understand the consequences of their decisions without having to experiment in a real business environment (Sitzmann, 2011). Taking the most well-known Beer Distribution Game as an example, the role-playing simulation exercise of simple production and distribution system has been used in countless business education courses and widely studied in the literature because it was first developed at MIT Sloan School of Management (Costas, Ponte, de la Fuente, Lozano, & Parreño, 2017; Kaminsky & Simchi-Levi, 1998). This simple game has proven to be very effective in helping trainees to understand the causal relationship between decision-making and supply chain behavior (Goodwin & Franklin, 1994).…”

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Investigating the Determinants of Students’ Intention to Use Business Simulation Games

Wang

Jian

2019

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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Business simulation games (BSGs) are educational tools that help students develop business management knowledge and skills. However, to date, relatively little research has investigated the factors that influence students' BSG usage intention. Grounded on the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, this study helped to fill this gap by exploring intention to use BSGs. Specifically, this study investigated the influence of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and price value on behavioral intention to use BSGs. Data collected from 141 useful respondents were tested against the research model using partial least square approach. The results of this study indicated that behavioral intention to use BSGs was influenced by facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and price value. Unexpectedly, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and social influence were not predictive of students' behavioral intention to use BSGs. These findings enhanced our understanding of students' BSG usage behavior and provided several important theoretical and practical implications for the application of BSG in the context of business and management education.

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Investigating the Determinants of Students’ Intention to Use Business Simulation Games

Wang

Jian

2019

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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“…The Beer Game [15] is a simulation used to teach students about the issues of supply chains. It is a linear supply chain where customers place orders for beer at regular intervals to a retailer who connects to a supply chain involving a wholesaler, a distributor and a factory.…”

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confidence: 99%