Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de Decisão

Through the empirical analysis of behavior in business games, this paper contributes to the discussion of the classical theories on decision making, especially the studies of Simon. Primary data from sequential experiments were collected from business games that operated as laboratory experiments. A...

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Main Authors: Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia, Sabrina Arruda Zerrenner
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Language:English
Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) 2009-04-01
Series:RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
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Online Access:http://anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_853.pdf
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description Through the empirical analysis of behavior in business games, this paper contributes to the discussion of the classical theories on decision making, especially the studies of Simon. Primary data from sequential experiments were collected from business games that operated as laboratory experiments. According to the theorists of Experimental Economics and Behavioral Finance (Barberis & Thaler, 2003; Breinholt, Chesteen, & Cooper, 1992; Shiller, 2000; Simon, 1957, 1976), there was evidence that the choices of some individuals were rational, although in a limited way, producing results in disagreement with the expected utility theory. Their judgment prevented their organizations from maximizing the results because of some cognitive factors (Simon as cited in Bazerman, 2004, p. 6) such as simplification, lack of criteria, time restriction, cost restriction, perception and the ability to retain information in the memory. The subjectively rational decisions (rational a priori), which seemed to align means and ends, were shown to be inefficient (a posteriori) reducing the organizational performance indicator (internal rate of return) and lowering incentives for the managers (performance evaluation). The evidence shown here, based on objective data and observations, makes it possible to study problems in the field of Experimental Economics through business games
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spelling doaj.art-aac3b6304fb943c2891af56ee57f40492023-08-02T02:03:47ZengAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea1415-65551982-78492009-04-01132189209Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de DecisãoAntonio Carlos Aidar SauaiaSabrina Arruda ZerrennerThrough the empirical analysis of behavior in business games, this paper contributes to the discussion of the classical theories on decision making, especially the studies of Simon. Primary data from sequential experiments were collected from business games that operated as laboratory experiments. According to the theorists of Experimental Economics and Behavioral Finance (Barberis & Thaler, 2003; Breinholt, Chesteen, & Cooper, 1992; Shiller, 2000; Simon, 1957, 1976), there was evidence that the choices of some individuals were rational, although in a limited way, producing results in disagreement with the expected utility theory. Their judgment prevented their organizations from maximizing the results because of some cognitive factors (Simon as cited in Bazerman, 2004, p. 6) such as simplification, lack of criteria, time restriction, cost restriction, perception and the ability to retain information in the memory. The subjectively rational decisions (rational a priori), which seemed to align means and ends, were shown to be inefficient (a posteriori) reducing the organizational performance indicator (internal rate of return) and lowering incentives for the managers (performance evaluation). The evidence shown here, based on objective data and observations, makes it possible to study problems in the field of Experimental Economics through business gameshttp://anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_853.pdfexperimental economicsbusiness gamesorganizational rationalitydecision making.
spellingShingle Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia
Sabrina Arruda Zerrenner
Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de Decisão
RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
experimental economics
business games
organizational rationality
decision making.
title Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de Decisão
title_full Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de Decisão
title_fullStr Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de Decisão
title_full_unstemmed Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de Decisão
title_short Jogos de Empresas e Economia Experimental: um Estudo da Racionalidade Organizacional na Tomada de Decisão
title_sort jogos de empresas e economia experimental um estudo da racionalidade organizacional na tomada de decisao
topic experimental economics
business games
organizational rationality
decision making.
url http://anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_853.pdf
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