Problem framing through gaming: Learning to manage complexity, uncertainty, and value adjustment

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 74-92

  Klabbers, Jan H G ^a  

^a Klabbers Management and Policy Consultancy ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actor approach; Autopoietic systems; Free form games; Gaming; Learning environments; Machine approach; Nontrivial machine; Rigid rule games; Simulation; Trivial machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646394089     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878196271004     Document Type: Article

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