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History
The history of this field is under some debate. Dr. Alyce Dickinson published an article in 2000 detailing the history of the field, which states that the field emerged from within the field of behavior analysis[10]. The first organized application of behavioral principles in business and industry was programmed instruction, however this application was before OBM emerged as a field.

The first university to offer a graduate program in OBM and systems analysis was Western Michigan University, under the instruction of Dr. Dick Malott.

Another early program in OBM was initiated at the University of Notre Dame in 1975 with the arrival of Martin Wikoff, the first graduate student in the program. Prior to attending Notre Dame, Wikoff, with University of Washington professors, Bob Kohlenberg (Psychology) and Terrance Mitchell (Foster School of Business) conducted one of the first controlled studies of applied behavior analysis in business. In this case, the focus of the study was to improve grocery clerk performance. That study was presented at the 1976 MABA Convention in Chicago and the application to business was so novel that the research was assigned to the topic category of "Experimental Living Arrangements." This confirmed its status as one of the pioneering OBM documented applications. The Wikoff-Crowell-Anderson Notre Dame OBM research team was born.

Article Evaluation
Many statements are left uncited. In particular, the History section needs work. There are random statements thrown in with little to no introduction. For example, the sentence "Various OBM interventions have included working with therapists on increasing billable hours" is left on its own, and no other similar ideas surround it. Why is this important? The entire section of Scientific Management is all over the place. I understand that it is intending to bring together background literature that lead to OBM, but it does this very poorly. Each sentence seems disconnected from the next. Citations 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 all have broken links. Many of the sources are more than 5 years old.

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