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Simon, Herbert A., The New Science of Management Decision, Harper and Row, Pub-
lishers, New York, NY, 1960 (50 pages).

Simon, Herbert A., The Sciences of the Artificial, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge,
Mass., 1969, (123 pages).

REOUIRED READINGS, THESIS PROPOSAL GROUP

Allen, William, "Locating Buffer Inventory in a Material Distribution System
That Uses Firm Resupply Orders,'" a dissertation proposal prepared at Indiana
University, Mar., 1979, (42 pages).

Carlis, John V., "An Investigation Into the Modeling and Design of Large, Logi-
cally Complex, Multi-User Databases," a dissertation proposal prepared at the
University of Minnesota, Mar. 1977, (40 pages).

Guimaraes, Nester, "An Analysis of the Association Among Situational Variables
and Application Life Pattern,'" a dissertation proposal prepared at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, Jan., 1979, (19 pages).

Weber, Ron, "A Study of Some Effects of Using 'Simulation to Evaluate Internal
Control on the Audit Decision Process," a dissertation proposal prepared at
the University of Minnesota, Apr., 1976, (27 pages).

White, Clinton, "The Effects of Aggregating Accounting Numbers on the Decision
Making Behavior of Managers," a dissertation proposal prepared at Indiana
University, Oct., 1980,(50 pages).

REOULRED READINGS, RESEARCH GROUP
The following readings will be used in the first half of the semester:

Bouchard, Thomas J. Jr., "Field Research Methods: Interviewing, Ouestionnaires,
Participant Observation, Systematic Observation, Unobtrusive Measures'" in

Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Rand McNally College
Pub: Co., Chicago, I11., 1976, pp. 363-413.

Dubin, Robert, "Theory Building in Applied Areas,'" in Handbook of Industrial and .

Organizational Psychology, Rand McNally, College Pub. Co., Chicago I1l., 1976,
pp. 17-26.

Fromkim, Howard L. and Siegfried Streufert, "Laboratory Experimentation," the

Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Rand McNally College
Pub. Co., Inc., Chicago, I1l., 1976, pp. 415-465.

Jenkins, A.M., "Review of the Relevant Literature," in An Investigation of Some

Management Information System Design Variables and Decision Making Performance:

A Simulation Experiment, University of Minnesota, Mar. 1977, pp. 13-51.

Jenkins, A.M., "The Research Framework,'" in An Investigation of Some Management

Information Systems Design Variables and Decision Making Performance: A
Simulation Experiment, University of Minnesota, Mar., 1977, pp. 52-69.