Education TEAM‐SIZE EFFECTS ON BUSINESS GAME PERFORMANCE AND DECISION‐MAKING BEHAVIORS

Wolfe, Joe; Chacko, Thomas I.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5915.1983.tb00173.x

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“…O'Reilly (1982), in a field study regarding the use of information sources, found that as the quality and accessibility of information sources increase, so does the frequency of Smith (1979), Gray (1972) GPA teams and performance Dill (1961), Vance and Gray (1967) No relationship between GPA and performance Wolfe and Box (1988) Significant relationship between GPA and cohesion Group size Wolfe and Chacko (1983) Four-member teams outperformed one-and two-member teams Gentry (1980) Larger teams perform better Process variable Cohesion McKenney and Dill (1966);Deep, No relationship between cohesion Bass, and Vaughan (1967) and performance Norris and Niebuhr (1980), Miesing Cohesive teams perform better (1982) Conflict Affisco and Chanin (1990) No difference in conflict between DSS and non-DSS groups Chanin and Schneer (1984) Personality related to conflict handling behavior Information usage Schroeder and Benbasat (1975), Information usage increases with O' Reilly (1982) increase in environmental uncertainty their use. This research also confirmed the Schroeder and Benbassat finding that information usage increases with an increase in environmental uncertainty.…”

Section: Group Processesmentioning

confidence: 96%

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The role of controlled and dynamic process environments in group decision making: An exploratory study

Dasgupta

2003

Simulation & Gaming

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Information systems have focussed on controlling the decision-making environment, whereas in real life groups operate in an uncontrolled, asynchronous environment. In this article, we examine existing information system research on groups, analyze the role played by the process environment on the quality of group decisions, and argue the need for the design and research into information systems for uncontrolled dynamic environments. The recent growth of the Internet and Internet-mediated simulations provide unique uncontrolled environments for group decision making. We recommend that researchers in information systems and in group decision making these Internet-mediated simulations for additional research in the area of decision making in uncontrolled dynamic environments.Research on groups has been conducted for the past 50 years. In recent years, studies have focused on utilizing information technology in helping groups make decisions. Although early research provided aids or tools that group members could use for decision making without affecting the process environment in which decisions are made, more recent research has concentrated on controlling group interaction with the objective of making it more efficient.Information systems for group decision making can be categorized into two types: systems that utilize a controlled environment in which groups make decisions and systems that enable groups to make decisions in an uncontrolled or dynamic environment. In a controlled environment, the information system controls all communication between group members, whereas in a dynamic environment, the information system used makes no attempt to control group interaction but provides tools and techniques for decision making in an uncontrolled setting. Group Support Systems (GSS) are information systems that provide a controlled environment for group decision making.Although GSS have their distinct advantages, most group decisions in real life are still made in a uncontrolled, asynchronous environment. Therefore, it is very important that we study the differences between various types of group decision making research. Moreover, recent advances in Internet technology, and Internet-mediated

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Section: Group Processesmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Research on group size has shown that 4-member groups learn more from business games when compared to 1-or 2-member groups (Wolfe & Chacko, 1983). Comparing performance of 2-, 3-, and 4-member teams, it was found that larger teams perform better.…”

Section: Contextual Variablesmentioning

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The role of controlled and dynamic process environments in group decision making: An exploratory study

Dasgupta

2003

Simulation & Gaming

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“…The team size is an indicator for the effort of team coordination [50]. While smaller teams located in a single room can directly communicate the need for formalization increases if the team grows (also if distributed/virtual teams become relevant).…”

Section: Sizementioning

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Criteria for software process tailoring: a systematic review

Kalus¹,

Kuhrmann²

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process

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Independently from which software process was selected for a company or a project, the selected software process usually cannot be applied without any customization. Although the need to tailor a software process to specific project requirements seems to be widely accepted and unquestioned, the way of doing the tailoring remains unclear and is, therefore, often left to the expertise of process engineers or project managers. What are the criteria to be applied in the tailoring? What are dependencies between different criteria and how should certain criteria influence the software process? In this paper we investigate concrete tailoring criteria for the tailoring of software processes. To this end, we present a collection of 49 tailoring criteria as the outcomes of a systematic literature review. We further analyze the impact of the discovered tailoring criteria by relating them to a set of 20 exemplary tailoring actions, which affect the projectspecific software process. Our outcomes show that the factors influencing the tailoring are well understood, however, the consequences of the criteria remain abstract and need to be interpreted on a project-per-project basis.

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“…It has been shown that simulation playing teams with strong task orientation perform better than teams that are more focused on rules or social aspects (Hunger & Wheelen, 1975). The role of attitudes and their effects on the performance of teams has also been a topic (Glazer et al, 1987), as have the effect of leadership style and size of team to simulation performance (Wolfe & Chacko, 1983). Moreover, it has been detected that the complexity of the simulation has an effect on performance (Lainema & Lainema, 2007).…”

Section: Decision-making Studies In Business Simulation Game Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decision-Making in a Real-Time Business Simulation Game: Cultural and Demographic Aspects in Small Group Dynamics

Bragge

Kallio

Seppälä

et al. 2017

Int. J. Info. Tech. Dec. Mak.

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Simulated virtual realities offer a promising but currently underutilized source of data in studying cultural and demographic aspects of dynamic decision-making (DDM) in small groups. This study focuses on one simulated reality, a clock-driven business simulation game, which is used to teach operations management. The purpose of our study is to analyze the characteristics of the decision-making groups, such as cultural orientation, education, gender and group size, and their relationship to group performance in a real-time processed simulation game. Our study examines decision-making in small groups of two or three employees from a global manufacturing and service operations company. We aim at shedding new light on how such groups with diverse background profiles perform as decision-making units. Our results reveal that the profile of the decision-making group influences the outcome of decision-making, the final business result of the simulation game. In particular, the cultural and gender diversity, as well as group size seem to have intertwined effects on team performance.

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Education TEAM‐SIZE EFFECTS ON BUSINESS GAME PERFORMANCE AND DECISION‐MAKING BEHAVIORS

Cited by 46 publications

References 18 publications

The role of controlled and dynamic process environments in group decision making: An exploratory study

The role of controlled and dynamic process environments in group decision making: An exploratory study

Criteria for software process tailoring: a systematic review

Decision-Making in a Real-Time Business Simulation Game: Cultural and Demographic Aspects in Small Group Dynamics

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