COURSE SYLLABUS
S601

RESEARCH DESIGNS AND METHODOLOGIES IN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Second Semester 1980-81
ELASS

Time: Tuesday 2:30 - 5:30
Place: Library 751

INSTRUCTOR
Name: Milt Jenkins
Office: 670B Business Building

Office Hours: M,T: 9:00 - 12:00 and by appointment
Office Phone: 337-8449
Home Phone: 332-4136

REOUIRED TEXTS

Blalock, Hubert M. Jr., Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Form-
ulations, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1979. (180 pps.)

Boulding, Kenneth E., The Image, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 1956, (175 pages)

Buckley, John W., Marlene H. Buckley and Hung-Fu Chiang, Research Methodology
and Business Decisions, National Association of Accountants and the Society
of Industrial Accountants of Canada, New York, New York, 1976, (89 pages)

Campbell, Donald T. and Julian C. Stanley, Experimental and Ouasi-Experimental
Designs for Research, Rand McNally College Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL,

1963. (84 pages)

Churchman, C. West, The Systems Approach, Dell Publishing Company, Inc., New York,
New York, 1968. (243 pages).

Davis, Gerden B. and Clyde Parker, Writing the Doctoral Dissertation, Barron's

Educational Series, Inc., Woodbury, New York, 1979, (14% pages)

Huck, Schuyler W,, William H. Cormier and William G, Bounds, Jr., Reading Statis-
tics and Research, Harper and Row, Publishers, New York, New York, 1974,
(387 pages)

Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Second Edition, Volume II,
No. 2, International Encyclopedia of United Science, University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1970. (210 pages)

Mowday, Richard T. and Richard M. Steers, (Editors) Research in Organizations:
Issues and Controversies, Goodyear Publishing Company, Inc., Santa Monica,
California, 1979. (350 pages)