Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Opportunities and Challenges for Information Systems Research: Beyond the Bounds of Statistical Inference-An Introduction -- Part I. Strategies for Empirical Advances in Information Systems and E-Commerce Research -- 2. Research Strategies for E-Business: A Philosophy of Science View in the Age of the Internet -- 3. A Potential Outcomes Approach to Assess Causality in Information Systems Research -- Part II. Understanding the Dynamics and Outcomes Associated with Information Technology Investments -- 4. Empirical Analysis of Information Technology Project Investment Portfolios -- 5. Evaluating Information Technology Industry Performance: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach -- 6. Using Accounting-Based Performance Measures to Assess the Business Value of Information Technologies and Systems -- Part III. New Approaches for Studying Mechanism Design in Online Auctions -- 7. Modeling Dynamics in Online Auctions: A Modern Statistical Approach -- 8. Empirical Design of Incentive Mechanisms in Group-Buying Auctions -- Part IV. New Empirical Approaches to the Analysis of Weblogs and Digital Community Forums -- 9. Empirical Advances for the Study of Weblogs: Relevance and Testing of Random Effects Model -- 10. Choice-Based Sampling and Estimation of Choice Probabilities in Information Systems and E-Commerce Research -- Part V. Looking Forward: Challenges, Transformations, and Advances -- 11. Debating the Nature of Empirical E-Commerce Research: Issues, Challenges, and Directions -- Editors and Contributors -- Series Editor -- Index.