Sinan Aral, Dave Godes and I are guest editing a special issue of Information Systems Research titled “Social Media and Business Transformation.”

This special issue of Information Systems Research is designed to stimulate innovative investigation of the relationship between social media and business transformation. All lenses of inquiry into the nature of this relationship are encouraged, including strategic, organizational, behavioral, economic, and technical. We welcome theoretical, analytical, and empirical (using any kind of research method, including experiments, primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on) contributions.Submission deadline: January 15, 2012. Please see this page for complete details and submission instructions.

This promises to be an exciting event. We look forward to receiving your papers!