Reviewer Acknowledgements

We at the MIS Quarterlywould like to thank the many excellent reviewerswho have volunteeredtheir time and expertise to make this an outstanding journal in the field. Their efforts make it possible for us to bring you quality articles in a timely manner.

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558 MISQuarterly/December 1998 MichaelDowling BillGardner Jon Hartwick UniversitaetRegensburg Universityof Mississippi McGillUniversity Regensburg University,MS Montreal,Quebec GERMANY CANADA RobertC. Goldstein Linda Duxbury Universityof BritishColumbia ChrisHiggins Carleton University Vancouver,British Columbia Universityof Western Ontario Ottawa,Ontario CANADA London,Ontario CANADA CANADA Dale L. Goodhue BenjaminDyer LorinHitt IntellimediaCommerce Universityof Georgia Universityof Pennsylvania Atlanta,GA Athens, GA Philadelphia,PA Maha El Shinnawy AbhijitGopal Teo Hock-Hai Texas A&MUniversity Universityof Calgary NationalUniversity of College Station,TX Calgary,Alberta Singapore CANADA Joyce Elam REPUBLICOF SINGAPORE FloridaInternational University PetterGottschalk AndreaHollingshead Miami,FL The PolytechnicCollege Universityof Illinois, DavidFeeny Bekkestua Urbana-Champagne TempletonCollege NORWAY Champagne, IL Kennington,Oxford UNITEDKINGDOM ShirleyD. Gregor Suzanne lacono Universityof Central Boston University RobertFichman Queensland Boston, MA Massachusetts Instituteof Rockhampton,Queensland Technology AUSTRALIA Charalamboslacovou Cambridge,MA GeorgetownUniversity TerriL. Griffith Washington,DC Guy Fitzgerald WashingtonUniversity Universityof London Juhani livari London St. Louis,MO Universityof Jyvaskyla UNITEDKINGDOM John Grudin Jyvaskyla FINLAND JerryFjernestad Universityof California,Irvine NY CA Nanuet, Irvine, Tomas Isakowitz New York Guy G. Gable Tor Guimaraes University New NY Queensland Universityof Tennessee Technological York, Technology University MicheleH. Jackson Brisbane,Queensland Cookeville,TN AUSTRALIA FloridaState University Tallahassee, FL Susan J. Harrington Jolene Galegher GeorgiaCollege & State Carnegie MellonUniversity GerryC. Jacobs Pittsburgh,PA University The HelixGroup, Inc. Milledgeville,GA Raleigh, NC BrentGallupe Queen's University Paul Hart Jaak Jurison Kingston,Ontario FloridaAtlantic University FordhamUniversity CANADA Boca Raton, FL New York,NY

MISQuarterly/December 1998 559 Surinder Kahai Kathy S. Lassila Nachshon Margaliot Binghamton University University of Southern Barllan University Binghamton, NY Colorado RamatGan Pueblo, CO ISRAEL Bonnie Kaplan Quinnipiac College Albert L. Lederer Poppy McLeod of Hamden, CT University Kentucky University of Iowa KY Lexington, Iowa City, IA Leon Kappelman University of North Texas Dorothy Elliott Leidner Dave Meader Baylor University Denton, TX University of Arizona Waco, TX Tucson, AZ Elena Karahanna Ed Levine Nicosia Nancy P. Melone The Capitol CYPRUS of Tallahassee, FL University Oregon OR C. Bruce Kavan Eugene, Kai Lim University of North Florida Brian Mennecke of Hawaii, Manoa Jacksonville, FL University Honolulu, HI East Carolina University NC Bill Greenville, Kettinger Lind of South Carolina Mary University North Carolina A & T State Shaila M. Miranda Columbia, SC University Florida Atlantic University Boca FL Laurie J. Kirsch Greensboro, NC Raton, of University Pittsburgh Beata Lobert Mike Morris PA 15260 Pittsburgh, Texas Christian Universtiy Air Force Institue of Fort TX Heinz K. Klein Worth, Technology WrightPatterson AFB, OH State University of New York Karen D. Loch Binghamton, NY Georgia State University Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama Atlanta, GA Prabhudev Konana Virginia Commonwealth University of Texas Lawrence Loh University Richmond, VA Austin, TX National University of Singapore Ram Nidumolu Mayuram Kris REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE of Arizona University of Michigan University Ann Arbor, Ml Robert W. Mantha Tucson, AZ Laval University Robert M.O'Keefe Kuldeep Kumar Quebec SteFoy, Rensselaer Erasmus University CANADA Polytechnic Rotterdam Institute THE NETHERLANDS Ji-Ye Mao Troy, NY University of British Columbia Christine T. Kydd Vancouver, British Columbia Lorne Olfman Universtiy of Delaware CANADA Claremont Graduate School Newark, DE Claremont, CA Barbara Marcolin Mary C. Lacity University of Calgary Rich Orwig University of Missouri, St. Louis Calgary, Alberta University of Arizona St. Louis, MO CANADA Tucson, AZ

560 MISQuarterly/December 1998 EffyOz Thomas Potok SuprateekSarker Penn State University IBMCorporation George WashingtonUniversity Malvern,PA Raleigh, NC Washington,DC

JonathanW. Palmer ArikRagowsky ChrisSauer of New South Wales Universityof Oklahoma Wayne State University University Norman,OK Detroit,MI Sydney AUSTRALIA Panko K. Ramamurthy Ray CarolSaunders Universityof Hawaii,Manoa Universityof Wisconsin FloridaAtlantic University Honolulu,HI Milwaukee,Wl Boca Raton, FL David B. Paradice ThiagarajanRavichandran AlbertH. Segars Texas A&M Rennselaer Polytechnique University The Universityof North TX Institute College Station, Carolina,Chapel Hill Troy,NY NC KeriPearlson Chapel Hill, Louis Universityof Texas, Austin Raymond KishoreSengupta Austin,TX Univ.du Quebec a Naval Post GraduateSchool TroisRivieres Monterey,CA Ken Peffers TroisRivieres,Quebec RutgersUniversity CANADA SrinarayanSharma Camden, NJ OaklandUniversity Blaize HornerReich Rochester, MI BrianPentland Simon FraserUniversity MichiganState University Burnaby,British Columbia MichaelJ. Shaw East Lansing,MI CANADA Universityof Illinois, UrbanaChampaign Nigel Piercy Suzanne Rivard Champaign,IL Universityof Wales Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Cardiff Commerciales James Short UNITEDKINGDOM Montreal,Quebec LondonBusiness School CANADA Regent's Park,London AlainPinsonneault UNITEDKINGDOM Ecole des Hautes Etudes ElizabethRoberts Commerciales of Melbourne Peretz Shoval University Ben-Gurion Montreal,Quebec Victoria University Parkville, Beer-Sheva CANADA AUSTRALIA ISRAEL CarolPollard KarenRuhleder Keng Leng Siau of of Illinois, University Calgary University Universityof BritishColumbia Alberta Calgary, Urbana-Champagne Vancouver,British Columbia CANADA Champagne, IL CANADA Jaana Porra RajivSabherwal John A.A. Sillince Universtiyof California, FloridaInternational University Universityof London Berkeley Miami,FL Egham,Surrey Berkeley,CA UNITEDKINGDOM Jeff Sampler Tom Postmes LondonBusiness School Sandra A. Slaughter Amsterdam Regent's Park,London Carnegie MellonUniversity THENETHERLANDS UNITEDKINGDOM Pittsburgh,PA

MISQuarterly/December 1998 561 GeraldF. Smith ShirleyF. Taylor MichaelVitale Universityof NorthernIowa Queen's University Universityof Melbourne Cedar Falls, IA Kingston,Ontario Parkville,Victoria CANADA AUSTRALIA H. Jeff Smith GeorgetownUniversity RonaldL. Thompson ChristianWagner Washington,DC Universityof Vermont CityUniversity of Hong Kong Burlington,VT Kowloon ChristinaSoh HONGKONG Noam NanyangTechnological Tractinsky Ben-Gurion University University GeoffWalsham REPUBLICOF SINGAPORE Beer-Sheva LancasterUniversity ISRAEL Lancaster Cheri UNITEDKINGDOM Speier Eileen Trauth IndianaUniversity NortheasternUniversity KentWalstrom Bloomington,IN MA Boston, Universityof Arkansas Susan Leigh Star Duane P. Truex Fayetteville,AR Universityof Illinois, GeorgiaState University B. Walther UrbanaChampaign Joseph Atlanta,GA Northwestern Champaign,IL University IL CraigTyran Evanston, KathyA. Stewart State Washington University Suzanne P. Weisband State WA Georgia University Pullman, of Arizona GA University Atlanta, AZ CathyUrquhart Tucson, Susan Straus Universityof Melbourne George R. Wheeler Carnegie MellonUniversity Parkville,Victoria IndianaUniversity Pittsburgh,PA AUSTRALIA Bloomington,IN ManiSubramani Thomas P. Van Dyke George R. Widmeyer of Minnesota Weber State University University Universityof Michigan MN Ogden, UT Minneapolis, Ann Arbor,Ml Paul C. van Fenema John Sviokla Susan Winter HarvardBusiness School Erasmus University FloridaAtlantic University MA Rotterdam Cambridge, THENETHERLANDS FortLauderdale, FL BernadetteSzajna BettyVandenbosch Judy Wynekoop Texas ChristianUniversity Case Western Reserve Universityof Texas, San FortWorth, TX University Antonio Cleveland,OH San Antonio,TX BernardCheng-Yian Tan NationalUniversity of ViswanathVenkatesh EleanorWynn Singapore Universityof Maryland Oregon GraduateInstitute of REPUBLICOF SINGAPORE College Park,MD Science &Technology West Linn,OR FraserTaylor Seppo Visala CarletonUniversity Universityof Tampere MichaelZack Ottawa,Ontario Tampere NortheasternUniversity CANADA FINLAND Boston, MA

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