Adoption of a business game under the perspective of an excellence model in an MBA course: peer analysis of multicriteria evaluation

• Autor(a) principal: Beltrão, Kaizô Iwakami
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Barçante, Luiz César
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Cadernos EBAPE.BR
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/72858
• topic: MBA. Business game. Business excellence model. Factor analysis. Logit model.; MBA. Juegos de negocios. Modelo de excelencia de la gestión. Análisis factorial. Modelo logit.; Master of Business Administration. Jogos de negócios. Modelo de excelência da gestão. Análise fatorial. Modelo logito.

This article describes a business game applied in one of the last courses of an MBA. The database analyzed consists of outcomes from 47 classes and 1410 students. The aim of the game is to integrate skills and abilities acquired during the program. It considerers an evaluation system with 39 items based on an Excellence Model which covers important aspects of the management process. Six of the evaluation items are financial goals, and the remaining 33 go through peer evaluation. These items deal with consumer-supplier aspects as well as management issues. A reduction of dimensionality was attained through factor analysis, yielding 14 factors. The research question is: Is it possible to identify relevant factors for winning the game? Two distinct tests were applied to answer the question: significance of a logit model parameters and t-test for equality of means. A generalized linear model using a logit link function and a Bernouilli distribution were fit to the data, confirming that most factors with statistically significant differences in the mean between winners and other participants were also significant in the model. Participants feedback confirmed that the game was well received by the students: it boosted students’ morale, increased interest in the subject, fostered entrepreneurship and less absenteeism, increased class participation, awareness of teamwork and planning, and created an environment which favored discussion on business ethics.