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The bullwhip effect is among the most studied effects in supply chain management research. Part of that research explores behavioural causes using the experimental context of the beer distribution game. This paper explicitly relates personality characteristics to performance in...
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) is continuing to gain importance, both in industry and academia. Most SCM courses offered by universities and business schools are text-based. Approaches to illustrate the dynamic behaviour of supply chains are the well-known Beer Game and simulations...
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This paper presents a variant of the popular beer game. We call the new game the stationary beer game, which models the material and information flows in a production-distribution channel serving a stationary market where the customer demands in different periods are independent and...