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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I am pleased to present the
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems/vol/34/issue/1">
March 2025 issue</a> of the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1F">Journal of Strategic Information Systems.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The issue contains a thought-provoking editorial and six research articles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F">Following my brief introduction to the issue,
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F">Hamed Zolbanin and
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Deputy Editor Benoit Aubert provide an editorial entitled, “</span><span class="js-article-title"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868724000507">A
process model for design-oriented machine learning research in information systems</a>.” The authors
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F">develop a comprehensive Machine Learning Process Model tailored for academic design-oriented machine learning research in the area of information systems.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1F">Inmyung Choi and Min-Seok Pang author the first research article, “<span class="js-article-title"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096386872400057X">Do CEOs matter?
Divergent impact of CEO power on digital and non-digital innovation</a>.” They </span>
develop a theoretical framework for the relationship between CEO power and digital innovation.
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<p class="js-article-list-item" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">E<span style="color:#1F1F1F">leni Lioliou, Oliver Krancher, and Ilan Oshri write “<span class="js-article-title"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868724000519">The
complementary and substitutional effects of forced and emergent mechanisms in multisourcing</a>.” They</span> draw on research on coopetition in information systems multisourcing and the literature on the crowding-out effect to theorise the interplay between
these mechanisms. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="js-open-access"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="js-article-list-item" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F">Ilan Oshri, Federica Angeli, Julia Kotlarsky, and Jatinder S. Sidhu provide “<span class="js-article-title"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868724000544">Sustaining
IT outsourcing performance during a systemic crisis: A configurational approach</a>.” The authors
</span>develop a conceptual model to guide a configurational analysis centering on the sustenance of IT outsourcing performance during systemic crises.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-top:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F">Stephen McCarthy, Paidi O’Raghallaigh, Carol Kelleher, and Frédéric Adam write “<span class="js-article-title"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868724000532">A
socio-cognitive perspective of knowledge integration in digital innovation networks</a>.” They draw</span> on case study findings from a health IoT project involving multiple organisations to explore how knowledge is integrated across boundaries during the
initiation stage of a digital innovation network. </span><span class="button-link-text"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span class="button-link-text"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="js-article-list-item" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F">Anuragini Shirish, Shirish C. Srivastava, Niki Panteli, and John O’Shanahan provide</span><span class="button-link-text"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">
“</span></span><span class="checkbox-label-value"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868724000520">A knowledge-centric
model for government-orchestrated digital transformation among the microbusiness sector</a>.”</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F"> They study a government-led program and theorize different <em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-style:normal">knowledge
mechanisms</span></em> through which government policy initiatives can foster microbusinesses’ digital transformation.
</span><span style="color:#1F1F1F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="js-article-list-item" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="js-article-list-item" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1F1F1F">F. Iannacci, S. Karanasios, G. Viscusi, R. McManus, C, Rupietta, and C.W. Tan author the final article, “<span class="js-article-title"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868724000568">Unboxing
maturity models: A set-theoretic perspective on e-Government configurations over time</a>.” They</span> conceptualize e-Government maturity using the theoretical lens of strategic change and undertake a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of its drivers.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Volume 34 Issue 1 editorial and research articles address important subjects ranging from CEO power and outsourcing through knowledge integration and government-orchestrated transformation.
I invite you to read them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F1F1F;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Yolande<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Yolande E. Chan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Dean and James McGill Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Strategic Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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