VOLUME 33, ISSUE 4 › December 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITOR'S COMMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

ISSUES AND OPINIONS

Fashion Waves in Information Systems Research and Practice
Richard L. Baskerville and Michael D. Myers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Commentary on Gill and Bhattacherjee: Is There an Informing Crisis?

Michael D. Myers and Richard L. Baskerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Fashion Waves Versus Informing: Response to Baskerville and Myers

Grandon Gill and Anol Bhattacherjee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

How Ethics Can Enhance Organizational Privacy: Lessons from the ChoicePoint and TJX Data Breaches
Mary J. Culnan and Cynthia Clark Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

RESEARCH ESSAY
Interpretation of Formative Measurement in Information Systems Research
Ronald T. Cenfetelli and Geneviève Bassellier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Community Learning in Information Technology Innovation
Ping Wang and Neil C. Ramiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Interfirm Strategic Information Flows in Logistics Supply Chain Relationships

Richard Klein and Arun Rai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Overlapping Online Auctions: Empirical Characterization of Bidder Strategies and Auction Prices
Ravi Bapna, Seokjoo Andrew Chang, Paulo Goes, and Alok Gupta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

Selective Status Reporting in Information Systems Projects: A Dyadic-Level Investigation

Charalambos L. Iacovou, Ronald L. Thompson, and H. Jeff Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785

RESEARCH NOTES
Resolving Difference Score Issues in Information Systems Research
Gary Klein, James J. Jiang, and Paul Cheney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811

Nonlinearities Between Attitude and Subjective Norms in Information Technology Acceptance:

A Negative Synergy?
Ryad Titah and Henri Barki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

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