Business games as pedagogical tools

Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1514-1518

  Ben Zvi, Tal ^a   Carton, Thomas C ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

ABSTRACT CONCEPTS; BUSINESS GAMES; CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES; INTERNATIONAL (CO); INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS; PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS; PORTLAND; REAL WORLD; REAL WORLD PROBLEMS; SIMULATION GAMES; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TEACHING METHODS; TEACHING TOOLS; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENTS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 47849087447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2007.4349473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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