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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I am pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><i>ISR</i></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> for 2013. This is a special issue on "Social Media and Business Transformation" guest edited by Sinan Aral, Chris Dellarocas, and David Godes. The table of contents follows.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Editorial Notes</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Ritu Agarwal</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/1.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0476</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">1-2</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Social Media and Business Transformation: A Framework for Research (Special Issue Introduction)</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Sinan Aral, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, David Godes</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/3.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0470</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">3-13</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>When Social Media Can Be Bad For You: Community Feedback Stifles Consumer Creativity and Reduces Satisfaction with Self-Designed Products</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Christian Hildebrand, Gerald Häubl, Andreas Herrmann, Jan R. Landwehr</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/14.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http:/dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0455</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">14-29</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Social Network Effects on Productivity and Job Security: Evidence from the Adoption of a Social Networking Tool</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Lynn Wu</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/30.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0465</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">30-51</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Active Social Media Management: The Case of Healthcare</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Amalia R. Miller, Catherine Tucker</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/52.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0466</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">52-70</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Social Ties and User Content Generation: Evidence from Flickr</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Xiaohua Zeng, Liyuan Wei</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/71.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0464</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">71-87</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Social Media Brand Community and Consumer Behavior: Quantifying the Relative Impact of User- and Marketer-Generated Content</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Khim Yong Goh, Cheng-Suang Heng, Zhijie Lin</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/88.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0469</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">88-107</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>The Effect of Customers’ Social Media Participation on Customer Visit Frequency and Profitability: An Empirical Investigation</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Rishika Rishika, Ashish Kumar, Ramkumar Janakiraman, Ram Bezawada</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/108.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0460</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">108-127</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Predicting Adoption Probabilities in Social Networks</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Xiao Fang, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Weiyu Tsai</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/128.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0461</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">128-145</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Social Media and Firm Equity Value</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Xueming Luo, Jie Zhang, Wenjing Duan</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/146.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0462</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">146-163</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Engineering Optimal Network Effects via Social Media Features and Seeding in Markets for Digital Goods and Services</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Yifan Dou, Marius F. Niculescu, D. J. Wu</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/164.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0463</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">164-185</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>The Effects of Rewarding User Engagement: The Case of Facebook Apps</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Jörg Claussen, Tobias Kretschmer, Philip Mayrhofer</font><br>
<a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/1/186.full.pdf+html"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0467</u></font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">186-200</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><b>Ritu Agarwal</b></font><br>
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