Improving POM learning: Systems thinking and transparent-box business simulators

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 210-227

  Machuca, José A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Business games; Cross functional interaction; System dynamics; Teaching POM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001726336     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1998.tb00453.x     Document Type: Article

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