Special Section: Social Influence and Networked Business Interaction

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Prof. Emmy Hoang (RMIT Asia in Vietnam) who provided outstanding editorial assistance in the process of putting together this special section. In addition, we thank the many authors who have submitted their research to our longstanding mini-track on Strategy, Information, Technology, Economics, and Society (SITES) at the annual Hawaiian Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), which featured early versions of the full-length papers presented here.

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Notes on contributors

Robert J. Kauffman

Robert J. Kauffman is a Professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU). He is now the Danske Bank Chair at Copenhagen Business School. He holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He previously was Associate Dean (Faculty) and Associate Dean (Research) at SMU. He was awarded the Otto Monsted Visiting Faculty Fellowship for a sabbatical visit to the Copenhagen School of Business in 2018. His earlier faculty appointments have been at Arizona State, University of Minnesota, and New York University, and he visited the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the University of Rochester. He had held distinguished visiting faculty appointments a number of institutions. Dr. Kauffman’s research focuses on technology and strategy, the economics of IT, financial services and technology, managerial decision-making, environmental sustainability, and empirical research methods. His work has appeared in Energy Policy; Management Science; Information Systems Research; Journal of Management Information Systems; MIS Quarterly; Review of Economics and Statistics; and many other journals.

Thomas A. Weber

Thomas A. Weber ([email protected]) holds the chair of Operations, Economics and Strategy at the Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he also directs the Doctoral Program in Management of Technology. Earlier he was a faculty member at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was visiting faculty in economics at Cambridge University and in mathematics at Moscow State University. He was previously with the Boston Consulting Group. His research interests include the economics of information and uncertainty, the design of contracts, and strategy. His articles have appeared in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Economic Theory, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Management Science, Operations Research, and many other journals. He is the author of Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics (MIT Press, 2011).