Talk:Business simulation

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Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This sentence is a growing list:

"Companies developing business simulations include Markstrat, PriSim Business War Games, Business Training Systems, Andromeda Training, and Informatist..."

so I've moved it here for now. From what I see, there are hundreds of companies developing business simulations -- and plenty of build-your-own sites. We need citations that clearly define this topic. Suggestions? --Busy Stubber 16:53, 30 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Edit request: add a section on team success factors (Parnell & Crandall 2021)

Latest comment: 3 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The user below has a request that an edit be made to Business simulation. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. The requested edits backlog is very high. Please be extremely patient. There are currently 974 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies. Remember to set the |answered= parameter to "yes" when the request has been accepted, rejected or on hold awaiting user input.

Disclosure: I work for Capsim Management Simulations, the company that makes the simulation studied in the source below. I am not editing the article directly and am asking an independent editor to review this request.

Request: Add the following section after "Cognitive assessment of market awareness", which already summarizes a single peer-reviewed study of one commercial simulation (Marketplace Simulations). The proposed section is parallel in scope and register: it summarizes one peer-reviewed study and names the simulation only as the instrument the researchers used. If the reviewing editor prefers, the product name can be dropped from the body and kept only in the citation.

Proposed text:

Factors associated with team success

A study in the Journal of Education for Business^[1] examined factors associated with success in Capsim's Capstone simulation, a numeric strategy simulation in which student teams run competing manufacturing companies. The authors noted that earlier research had examined the effect of simulations on learning, but that no published study had investigated what predicts team success within one. The data covered 7,347 participants who played the simulation in 2019. The results suggested an optimal team size of four students. Teams performed better in competition mode, where they played against other student teams, than in footrace mode, where they played against computer-run companies, and better in official rounds than in practice rounds. Completing the simulation's training modules was associated with better team performance in some cases but not all.

Source: Parnell, J. A., & Crandall, W. (2021). Success factors in Capsim's Capstone simulation: An empirical examination. Journal of Education for Business, 96(7), 454–460. https://doi.org/10.1080/08832323.2020.1854161 (also indexed at ERIC: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1306746)

Thank you for reviewing. ~~~~ Evan at Capsim (talk) 17:52, 12 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

1. Parnell, John A.; Crandall, William (2021). "Success factors in Capsim's Capstone simulation: An empirical examination". Journal of Education for Business. 96 (7): 454–460. doi:10.1080/08832323.2020.1854161.