Associate Editor's Comments

ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Naveen Donthu

In the social sciences, there is a great deal of talk about the importance of " theory " in constructing causal explanations of bodies of data.... In many of these cases the necessity of theory is badly exaggerated. It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. —Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's (1887) A Study in Scarlet. Users of struct...

Editors' Comments

The publication of the first article in this issue, “Realizing Strategic Value through Center-Edge Digital Transformation in Consumer-Centric Industries,” provides a unique opportunity to pay tribute to the first author, Paul Gray, who passed away last year. Please join me in thanking Omar El Sawy, Guillermo Asper, and Magnus Thordarson for continuing to revise this article co-authored with Pau...

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1939-1374/13/$31.00 © 2013 IEEE Published by the IEEE Computer Society Rong N. Chang received the BS degree in computer engineering with honors from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1982 and the PhD degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1990. He is currently a research staff member and the manager of service management environme...