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Publication Date: 2025
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Business Simulation Performance: Who Performs Better?
Frank C. Butler; Deborah M. Mullen; Kathleen K. Wheatley
Journal of Education for Business, v100 n1 p35-44 2025
Anecdotal evidence suggests that students with quantitative business majors (e.g., finance, accounting, data analytics, economics) outperform students from less quantitatively rigorous majors (e.g., management, human resource management, marketing) on a business simulation game at a mid-sized, southeastern, public, AACSB accredited university. We tested the veracity of this anecdotal evidence and found a surprising outcome. Major was not the key driver of performance but rather gender drove most of the differentiation in business simulation performance, such that men outperformed women. We discuss the impact of our findings on pedagogy, consider the greater implications for practice, and make recommendations for future research.
Descriptors: Business Education, Majors (Students), Finance Occupations, Accounting, Data Analysis, Economics, Administrator Education, Human Resources, Marketing, Simulation, Public Colleges, Gender Differences, Performance, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Game Based Learning, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Anxiety, Competition, Risk
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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