At 10:25 AM 5/29/97 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Pen-l'ers, > >I am going to organize two courses "Industrial Organization" and >"Engineering Economics". I will really appreciate if you can suggest me any >textbook or articles regarding these courses. > Although it is rather difficult to guess the exact content of your courses from the titles, I suggest the follwoing: Charles Perrow, _Complex Organizations_, New York: McGraw Hill, 1986 which is a good overview of the state of organizationsl theory Alfred Chandler, _The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in Amercian Business, Cambridge: The belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977 wojtek sokolowski institute for policy studies johns hopkins university baltimore, md 21218 [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (410) 516-4056 fax: (410) 516-8233