An Exploratory Taxonomy of Business Games

  • Authors:
  • Marco Greco;Nicola Baldissin;Fabio Nonino

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy;The Business Game Srl, Udine, Italy;Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Simulation and Gaming
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This article proposes a business game taxonomy. The taxonomy creates a comprehensive definition of business games in general and identifies their parameter-defining characteristics. A successful taxonomy can facilitate the comparison of different game-based educational tools and can direct application-based research to a game's most learning-associated components. The field's existing taxonomies within the literature are inadequate for both purposes. The genesis of our five-part taxonomy of business games was both literature-based and intuitive. It is hoped that this taxonomy will serve to develop a global database to be built collaboratively by the community of business game users and developers.