Business Informatics: characteristics, challenges and opportunities from a German perspective

The study explores characteristics of the German academic discipline «Wirtschaftsinformatik». It is based on a literature review of fourteen publications on the history of the discipline and on a comparison of research approaches of «Wirtschaftsinformatik» and the North-American sister discipline «Information systems». The study identifies four characteristics of the academic discipline «Wirtschaftsinformatik» and derives six challenges and opportunities for the business informatics community worldwide.

• Stelzer D.