Excerpt from Centralization Versus Decentralization of Information Systems: A Critical Survey and an Annotated Bibliography The literature dealing with the issues related to distributed management information systems is rapidly expanding. This literature may be classified in two categories: the management-oriented literature which is concerned with the issue of centralization versus decentralization of information systems and the management of distributed processing; the technically-oriented literature which deals with issues such as optimizing distributed networks and currency control in computer networks. This survey deals only with the first aspect of distributed systems. In the first part of this paper, a critical study of the state of the art in distributed management information systems is provided. In the second part, an annotated bibliography related to the issue of centralization versus decentralization of information systems is presented. This bibliography updates the one published by the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) (1976) (1). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.