<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce the publication of the September Issue of <i>Information Systems Research</i> (Vol. 24, No. 3) containing 16 research articles and 3 research notes.  The Table of Contents follows.</div>
<div><br></div><div><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">An Empirical Examination of the
Antecedents and Consequences of Contribution Patterns in Crowd-Funded Markets, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Gordon Burtch, Anindya Ghose, Sunil
Wattal</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/499.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0468</a></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">All Are Not Equal: An Examination of
the Economic Returns to Different Forms of Participation in Open Source
Software Communities,<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Il-Horn Hann, Jeffrey Roberts, Sandra
Slaughter</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/520.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.128/isre.1120.0474</a></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Networks, Social Influence and the
Choice Among Competing Innovations: Insights From Open Source Software Licenses, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Param Singh, Corey Phelps</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/539.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0449</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">An Empirical Analysis of Technical
Efficiency: The Role of IT Intensity and Competition, <b>V</b></span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>ijay Gurbaxani, Young Bong Chang</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/561.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0438</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Privacy Concerns and Privacy-Protective
Behavior in Synchronous Online Social Interactions, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Zhenhui (Jack) Jiang, Cheng Suang Heng,
Chun Choi</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/579.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0441</a></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Promotional Marketing or Word-of-Mouth?
Evidence from Online Restaurant Reviews, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Xianghua Lu, Sulin Ba, Lihua Huang, Yue
Feng</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/596.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0454</a></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">How is the Mobile Internet Different? </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Anindya Ghose, Avi Goldfarb, Sangpil Han</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/613.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0453</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">From Use to Effective Use: A
Representation Theory Perspective, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Andrew Burton-Jones, Camille Grange</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/632.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0444</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Motivational Differences across
Post-Acceptance IS Usage Behaviors. </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Xixi Li, J.J. Po-An Hsieh, Arun Rai</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/659.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0456</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">To Personalize or Not to Personalize
the Online Purchase Interactions: Implications of Self-Selection by Retailers, <b>S</b></span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>riram Thirumalai, Kingshuk Sinha</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/683.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0471</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Moving From Access to Use of the
Information Infrastructure: A Multilevel Sociotechnical Framework, <b>P</b></span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>radeep Racherla, Munir Mandviwalla </b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/709.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0477</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">On Risk Management with Information
Flows in Business Processes, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Xue Bai, Ramayya Krishnan, Rema Padman,
Harry Jianna Wang</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/731.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0450</a></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">The Impact and Implications of
On-Demand Services on Market Structure, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Pei-Yu Chen, Shin-yi Wu</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/750.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0451</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Combinatorial Auctions with Allocation
Constraints: On Game-Theoretical and Computational Properties of Generic
Pricing Rules,<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Ioannis Petrakis, Georg Ziegler, Martin
Bichler</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/768.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0452</a></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">IT Implementation Contract Design:
Analytical and Experimental Investigation of IT Value, Learning, and Contract
Structure, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>D. J. Wu, Min Ding, Lorin Hitt</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/787.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0448</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Status Locality on the Web:
Implications for Building Focused Collections, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/802.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0457</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Interdependencies in IT Infrastructure
Services: Analyzing Service Processes for Optimal Incentive Design, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Sagnika Sen, T.S. Raghu</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/822.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0475</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">A View from the Top: Integrated
Information Delivery and Effective Information Use from the Senior Executive’s
Perspective, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>William Kettinger, Chen Zhang, Kuochung
Chang</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/842.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0473</a></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">A Contingency Approach to Investigating
the Effects of User-System Interaction Modes of Online Decision Aids, </span><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Weiquan Wang, Izak Benbasat</b><br></span><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/861.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0445</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">About Our Authors</span><br><a href="http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/24/3/877.full.pdf+html" style="font-size:9pt">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0499</a></p>


<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Cordially,<br>Ritu Agarwal</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9pt">EIC, ISR</span></p><br> -- <br>Ritu Agarwal<br>Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems<br>Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems<br>Robert H. Smith School of Business<br>
4327 Van Munching Hall<br>University of Maryland<br>College Park, MD  20742-1815<br>301.405.3121 TEL<br>301.405.8655 FAX<br><a href="http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids" target="_blank">http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids</a><br>
<a href="http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu" target="_blank">http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal" target="_blank">http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal</a><br>
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