The topics of all articles in all departments of MIS Quarterly must relate to the journal's editorial objective, which is the development and communication of knowledge concerning both the management of information technology and the use of information technology for managerial and organizational purposes.  Manuscripts focusing on information technology generally need to examine a phenomenon in which the behavioral, the managerial, and/or the organizational also play a substantive and not just incidental role.  Similarly, manuscripts focusing on the behavioral, the managerial, and/or the organizational generally need to examine a phenomenon in which information technology also plays a substantive and not just incidental role. 
Allen S. Lee
Editor-in-Chief
January 2000