e from http://ssrn.com/abstract=980726 Acknowledgements: The authors thank Ramayya Krishnan, Marshall Van Alstyne, Senior Editor Sanjeev Dewan, the associate editor and referees for this journal, and seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon University, INFORMS, the ICIS Doctoral Consortium, and the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) for valuable comments on this research. Smith thanks the National Science Foundation for generous support provided through CAREER award IIS-0118767. _________________ 1 University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249 2 Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260 3 School of Information Systems and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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