The Definition of Business Games and Trends in Their Utilization

Abstract

This selection examines business games as an active method of instruction and as a point of departure for elaborating a theory of the firm under socialism. It represents a newly emerging trend in the cybernetic approach to management theory in the USSR. Indeed, the authors are leading proponents of business games, and have had considerable impact in this area. Western concepts and methods have considerably influenced this view of management simulations. — R.F.V.