Abstract Purpose This review used science mapping to document and analyze the use of simulation-based learning in management education. Design The authors used bibliometric tools to analyze 1200 relevant Scopus-indexed documents published between 1960 and 2019. Descriptive statistics, co-citation analysis and co-word analysis were employed in this quantitative review. Findings The review found a rapidly growing publication trajectory with 81% of documents published since 2000 and 57% since 2010. While this literature is worldwide in scope, publications authored in Anglo-American-European societies accounted for 85% of this corpus. Topical analysis verified that simulation-based learning is being used to teach a wide range of functional management subjects. Co-citation analysis identified four ‘schools of thought’ that define the intellectual structure of this literature: Theoretical Foundations of Simulation-Based Learning, Simulation-Based Learning in Business Education, Organizational Theory and Complex Systems, Simulation-Based Learning in the Professions. Implications The review highlights the need for programmatic research which examines the design and instructional use of management simulations across different cultural contexts. In a global management education context, greater attention needs to be given the ‘portability’ of the underlying theories and decision rules that underlie simulations. More attention should also be given to the use of simulations in management fields outside of business education. Originality/value The review empirically affirms the impact that theories of human learning have had on the design and use of simulation-based learning and highlights the importance of framing the lessons drawn from simulations when used across different cultural contexts.

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分析管理教育中基于模拟的学习研究的知识结构，1960-2019：文献计量学评论

摘要 目的本综述使用科学制图来记录和分析基于模拟的学习在管理教育中的应用。设计 作者使用文献计量工具分析了 1960 年至 2019 年间发表的 1200 份相关的 Scopus 索引文件。本次定量评价采用了描述性统计、共引分析和共词分析。结果 审查发现了快速增长的出版轨迹，自 2000 年以来发表的文献占 81%，自 2010 年以来占 57%。虽然这些文献的范围遍及全球，但在英美-欧洲社会撰写的出版物占该语料库的 85%。专题分析证实，基于模拟的学习正被用于教授范围广泛的职能管理学科。共引分析确定了定义该文献知识结构的四个“思想流派”：基于模拟的学习的理论基础、商业教育中的基于模拟的学习、组织理论和复杂系统、专业中的基于模拟的学习。影响 该评论强调了对跨不同文化背景的管理模拟的设计和教学使用进行程序化研究的必要性。在全球管理教育背景下，需要更多地关注作为模拟基础的基础理论和决策规则的“可移植性”。还应更多地关注在商业教育之外的管理领域中使用模拟。