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Our ten years of work on transparet box business simulation
Autor/es | Domínguez Machuca, José Antonio
Ruiz del Castillo, José Carlos Domingo Carrillo, Miguel Ángel González Zamora, María del Mar |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Economía Financiera y Dirección de Operaciones |
Fecha de publicación | 1998 |
Fecha de depósito | 2018-12-03 |
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Resumen | Traditional business games are of the so-called black-box type (BBBS=Black box business
simulator); that is to say, the internal structure which generates the results of the simulation after
decision-making is not known. ... Traditional business games are of the so-called black-box type (BBBS=Black box business simulator); that is to say, the internal structure which generates the results of the simulation after decision-making is not known. As a result, the player normally operates by trial and error and bases his decisions on the symptoms of the problem (the observed behaviors of the system's variables) and not on the real causes of the problem (the system's structure). Since 1988 José A.D. Machuca has insisted that the business games based on System Dynamics models should be Transparent-box business simulators (TBBSs). That means that, during the game, the user has access to the structure of the underlying model and is able to relate it to the observed behaviors. The hypothesis is that such transparency would facilitate causal reflection and favor systemic learning of business problems. In 1990, the G.I.D.E.A.O. Research Group took action on this idea and centered one of its lines of research on this matter, with three main objectives: a) Creation of TBBSs, b) Introduction of TBBSs in undergraduate and graduate Management courses as well as in executive training, c) Experimentation in controlled environments in order to test the hypothesis mentioned in the above paragraph. Now, ten years after the birth of the idea, we would like to share in this paper the results obtained during that period. |
Cita | Domínguez Machuca, J.A., Ruiz del Castillo, J.C., Domingo Carrillo, M.Á. y González Zamora, M.d.M. (1998). Our ten years of work on transparet box business simulation. En 16th international conference of the system dynamics society (16ª. 1998. Quebec) |
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