THE JOURNAL OF
Strategic Information Systems
www.elsevier.com/locate/jsis
Combining intellectual rigour with practical experience, this international journal integrates academic
findings and research with the current experience of executives attempting to get the best out of their
investment in information systems. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems emphasizes the need
for IT systems to be driven by business requirements and publishes state-of-the-art review and
developmental papers from around the world, in addition to case studies drawn from actual experience.
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Professor R. D. Galliers
Office of the Provost
Bentley College, 175 Forest Street, Waltham,
Massachusetts, 02452-4705, USA
EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN EDITOR
Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany
AMERICAS EDITOR
Professor Arun Rai, Georgia State University,
E-Commerce Institute, College of Business
Administration, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Professor Phillip Powell, School of Management,
University of Bath, Claverdon Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD
JOINT EDITOR IN CHIEF
Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas,
Austin, TX 78712-1175, USA
ASIA PACIFIC REGION EDITOR
Guy C. Gable, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia
CASE STUDIES EDITORS
Professor Ramon O’Callaghan, Tilburg University,
PO Box 90153, 500 LE, Tilburg,
The Netherlands
Professor Dorothy E. Leidner, Baylor University,
PO Box 98005, Waco, Texas 76798-8005,
USA
Maryam Alavi, Emory University, GA, USA
Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School,
Denmark
David Avison, ESSEC Business School,
Cergy-Pontoise, France
Walter Baets, Ecole de Management, Marseille, France
Marianne Broadbent, Gartner Group Pacific, Victoria,
Australia
Debabroto Chatterjee, University of Georgia, USA
Ellen Christiaanse, ESADE, Spain
Claudio Ciborra, London School of Economics, London, UK
Roger Clarke, The Australian National University, Australia
Wendy Currie, The University of Warwick, UK
Robert Davidson, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Georgios I. Doukidis, Athens University of Economics
& Business, Greece
Michael J. Earl, London Business School, UK
Joyce Elam, Florida International University, USA
Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California, USA
Guy Fitzgerald, Brunel University, UK
Paul Gray, The Claremont Graduate School, California, USA
Varun Grover, Clemson University, USA
John Henderson, Boston University, USA
Rudy Hirschheim, Louisiana State University, LA, USA
Sid Huff, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Blake Ives, University of Houston, USA
Tawfik Jelassi, ENPC School of International Management,
Paris, France
Robert Kauffman, University of Minnesota, USA
John King, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Laurie Kirsch, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Benn Knosynski, Emory University, GA, USA
Jiro Kokuryo, Keio University Graduate School of
Business Administration, Japan
Antonio Kovacevic, Universidad Adolfo Ibarez, Santiago,
Chile
Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universitat Munchen,
Garching, Germany
George von Krogh, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Albert Lederer, University of Kentucky, USA
Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA
Rik Maes, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Munir Mandviwalla, Temple University, USA
M. Lynne Markus, Bentley College, MA, USA
John Mooney, Pepperdine University, USA
Sue Newell, Bentley College, MA, USA
Arkalygud Ramaprasad, University of Illinois at Chicago,
USA
Blaize Horner Reich, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Tapio Reponen, Turku School of Economics and
Business Administration, Finland
Subhashish Samaddar, Robinson College of Business,
Georgia State University, USA
V. (Samba) Sambamurthy, Michigan State University, MI,
USA
Jeff Sampler, London Business School, UK
Rajeev Sharma, University of New South Wales, Australia
Christina Soh, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Anath Srinivasan, The University of Aukland, New Zealand
Paula Swatman, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Doug Vogel, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
John Ward, Cranfield School of Management, UK