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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">Greeting Colleagues –
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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">Cheri Speier-Pero and I are proud to announce our inaugural issue as Editors of the Decision Sciences Journal: Volume 46, Number 1. Content
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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">We continue to welcome research from all business disciplines that concerns itself with rigorous investigations of the practice of material
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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">Decision Sciences Journal 46(1):<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Choice, and the Option to Breach a Leasing Contract (pages 7–35)</span></b></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Andrei Neboian and Stefan Spinler</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Article first published online: 26 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/deci.12119</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">M. Tolga Akçura, Zafer D. Ozdemir and Mohammad S. Rahman</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
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Investment in Environment and Safety Practices: Moderating Effect of National Culture (pages 63–100)</span></b></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Damien Power, Robert Klassen, Thomas J. Kull and Dayna Simpson</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yoon Hee Kim and Urban Wemmerlöv</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Article first published online: 26 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/deci.12117</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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from Social Networking Sites—Articulated Friendships versus Communication Interactions (pages 135–163)</span></b></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hong Guo, Praveen Pathak and Hsing Kenneth Cheng</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
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with Uncertain Piracy (pages 165–191)</span></b></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Daewon Sun, Robert Easley and Byung Cho Kim</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Taesu Cheong, Mark Goh and Sang Hwa Song</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thomas F. Stafford, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Editor, <i>Decision Sciences Journal</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Memphis<o:p></o:p></p>
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