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Erschienen in: Business & Information Systems Engineering 6/2012

01.12.2012 | Editorial

On Dinosaurs, Measurement Ideologists, Separatists, and Happy Souls

Proposing and Justifying a Way to Make the Global IS/BISE Community Happy

verfasst von: Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl, Dr. Gilbert Fridgen, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter Müller, Dr. Maximilian Röglinger

Erschienen in: Business & Information Systems Engineering | Ausgabe 6/2012

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If one is interested in the past, present, and future of the global community of all scholars who deal with information systems, the North American Information Systems (NAIS) community and the Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) community from the German-speaking countries are reliable proxies. This is because they prototypically epitomize characteristics that are shared by almost all communities worldwide (Buhl et al. 2012; Frank et al. 2008). Both communities have developed rather independently in the last decades and, as will be seen below, feature complementary strengths and weaknesses today. Moreover, both communities face complementary challenges that partly result from their individual weaknesses and partly from changes in their ecosystems. With many members of either community being unhappy with the status quo, adaptation is inevitable! …

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Metadaten
Titel
On Dinosaurs, Measurement Ideologists, Separatists, and Happy Souls
Proposing and Justifying a Way to Make the Global IS/BISE Community Happy
verfasst von
Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl
Dr. Gilbert Fridgen
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter Müller
Dr. Maximilian Röglinger
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2012
Verlag
SP Gabler Verlag
Erschienen in
Business & Information Systems Engineering / Ausgabe 6/2012
Print ISSN: 2363-7005
Elektronische ISSN: 1867-0202
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-012-0239-z

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