T. A. Van Wormer’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


The Carnegie Tech Management Game
  • Article

February 1960

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26 Reads

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55 Citations

The Journal of Business

K. J. Cohen

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R. M. Cyert

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P. R. Winters

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... These games emerged in the late 1950s and were just beginning to become popular. 25 The best known one, "The Carnegie Tech Management Game" (see Cohen et al., 1960), used the detergent industry of the day to provide the raw material of economic details for its industry model. This was a "man-machine" simulation: the industrial environment (the model) was programmed on the computer and the people playing the game took the role of managers making the decisions required by the firms participating in the industry and responding to the environment; the computer acted as the calculating device that solved the individual plans according to the model of industry level activity. ...

Reference:

Morgan (2012) The World in the Model How Economists Work and Think (Entire Book)
The Carnegie Tech Management Game
  • Citing Article
  • February 1960

The Journal of Business