<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am pleased to announce the publication of the December Issue of <i>Information Systems Research</i> (Vol. 24, No. 4) containing 2 research commentaries, 9 research articles and 5 research notes. The Table of Contents follows.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Editorial Notes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Ritu Agarwal</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Iii</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0507">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0507</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Research Commentary: Information in Digital, Economic and Social
Networks</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Arun Sundararajan, Foster Provost, Gal Oestreicher-Singer, and Sinan
Aral</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">883</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0472">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.1120.0472</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Research Commentary: Too Big to Fail: Large Samples and the <i>p</i>-Value Problem</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mingfeng Lin, Henry C. Lucas, Jr., and Galit Shmueli</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">906</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0480">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0480</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Blunting Damocles? Sword: A Longitudinal Model of Healthcare IT Impact on
Malpractice Insurance Premium and Quality of Patient Care</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Nirup Menon and Rajiv Kohli</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">918</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0484">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0484</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">From Knowing It to "Getting It": Envisioning Practices in
Computer Games Development</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Joe Nandhakumar, Nikiforos S. Panourgias, and Harry Scarbrough</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">933</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0482">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0482</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Do Recommender Systems Manipulate Consumer Preferences? A Study of
Anchoring Effects</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Gediminas Adomavicius, Jesse Bockstedt, Shawn P. Curley, and Jingjing
Zhang</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">956</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0497">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0497</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Information Technology Competencies, Organizational Agility, and Firm
Performance: Enabling and Facilitating Roles</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Anindita Chakravarty, Rajdeep Grewal, and Vallabh Sambamurthy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">976</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0500">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0500</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Product-Oriented Web Technologies and Product Returns: An Exploratory
Study</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Prabuddha De, Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, and Mohammad S. Rahman</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">998</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0487">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0487</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">A Real Options Valuation Model for Generalized Meta-Staged
Projects—Valuing the Migration to SOA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Suvankar Ghosh and Xiaolin Li</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0488">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0488</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Outsourcing Contracts and Equity Prices</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Deepa Mani, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew Whinston</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1028</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0478">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0478</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Information Valuation and Confirmation Bias in Virtual Communities:
Evidence from Stock Message Boards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">JaeHong Park, Prabhudev Konana, Bin Gu, Alok Kumar, and Raj Raghunathan</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1050</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0492">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0492</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Licensing and Competition for Services in Open Source Software</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Terrence August, Hyoduk Shin, and Tunay Tunca </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1068</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0486">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0486</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Research Note: A Dynamic View of the Impact of Network Structure on
Technology Adoption: The Case of OSS Development</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Gang Peng and Debabrata Dey</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1087</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0494">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0494</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Research Note: The Value of Third-Party Assurance Seals in Online
Retailing: An Empirical Investigation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Koray Özpolat, Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Wolfgang Jank, and Siva Viswanathan
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1100</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0489">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0489</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Research Note: Continued Participation in Online Innovation Communities:
Does Community Response Matter Equally for Everyone?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Chen Zhang, Jungpil Hahn, and Prabuddha De </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1112</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0485">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0485</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Research Note: The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement on
Open Source Software Project Success</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Wen Wen, Chris Forman, and Stuart Graham </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1131</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0479">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0479</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Research Note: Business Value of Information Technology: Testing the
Interaction Effect of IT and R&D on Tobin’s Q</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Indranil Bardhan, Viswanathan (Vish) Krishnan, and Shu Lin </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1147</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0481">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0481</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">About Our Authors</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">1162</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0506">http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2013.0506</a></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cordially,</div><div>Ritu Agarwal</div>
<div><br></div><div>EIC, ISR</div>-- <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>
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