5 septembre 2009

Envoie du chapitre final à l'éditeur, Daniel Palmer, après intégration des commentaires et corrections dans le manuscrit.

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Dear Daniel,

I am pleased to inform you that I finalized the review of the paper according to the comments I received for the reviewers and from yourself and you will find attached the final version. First of all, I would reiterate my thanks to yourself and to the reviewers for their kind support and guidance. You have help strengthen the impact of the document, its clarity and focus.

I addressed the comments received in two steps:

- for those comments which were inserted with revision marks and notes within the text itself, I clarified or corrected according to your comments and those of the reviewers.
- for those comments which were provided separately, as part of the Chapter Evaluation, I did a specific work to address all of them.

For this second group of comments, please find hereunder some specific responses:

The author uses several definitions and ideas in the introduction and background section but does not adequately cite the literature. For instance, email is defined under email structure yet no source is provided as to where that technical definition comes from.

- I have completed the introduction as well as the definition of e-mail. I have completed the list of references accordingly.

More information on some of the other types of issues explored in e-business would be informative. The author refers to “ Previous research on ethical issues in e-business mainly addresses the relation of e-businesses with their external environment” (p.2) Including some of the literature that the author is referring to would strengthen this area.

- I have completed the litterature review as to be in line with this comment.

Table 2 provides a nice “at a glance’ overview of the actions and organizational consequences with email misuse. This table should be better labeled – clearly explaining what the horizontal and vertical column headers represent.

- I have reviewed the labeling of the table, and provided an explanation of its content.

The author states in the opening that “three specific avenues are explored: modernity and communication with the “absent other”, the right of privacy, and information overload.” When these are introduced later in the chapter, they should be given some type of introduction to let the reader know that these are the three areas of exploration. Otherwise, they get lost in with the other ideas.

- The various headings as well as the introduction to this section have been reviewed accordingly, so that the reader can follow more easily and doesn't get lost.

- I have also taken good note of the references to sociatechnical theory and I thank the reviewers for these elements. I should be using them for my further research.

- I have also considered the addition of a table comparing e-mail to traditional media. However, I finally decided not to include it in this paper, since this would have requested further restructuring of the chapter. I'll neverthelss use this advice in future work.

I hope the attached paper will correspond to your expectations. Please feel free to come back to me.

Best regards,

Fernando Lagraña

Research Fellow, Grenoble Graduate School of Business

Adjunct Professor, Webster University

Pièce jointe : ChapterRevisions1&FL.doc