On Dinosaurs, Measurement Ideologists, Separatists, and Happy Souls

Views on the Past, Present, and Future of Business and Information Systems Engineering

“…• All in all, articles in BISE/Wirtschaftsinformatik are meanwhile downloaded more than 12.000 times per month. • With respect to journal impact factors, which mark an internationally still significant success factor for scientific journals, although this is subject to critical discussion (Buhl et al 2012b): Since 2007, the impact factor of BISE/Wirtschaftsinformatik rose by more than 300% to 1.200 in 2012, considerably more than all competing journals. • However, we so far have not managed to pile up a backlog of fully accepted papers published ''online first'' due to the constantly low acceptance rate slightly below 20%.…”

Qualification Profile of University Professors in Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE)

“…Would a university appoint a professor as head of the department of cosmetic surgery who is a luminary in culturing artificial skin but never transplanted a piece of skin to the face of a disaster victim? Articles in journals for practitioners and similar media of knowledge transfer such as papers for congresses with respective audience or technical books do not possess a high reputation (Buhl et al 2012). I have experienced several situations where members of a scientific committee suggested to simply neglect these accomplishments when evaluating and ranking applicants.…”

“Impact Engineering” or Social Responsibility?

“…In the following, I will briefly sum up my statements of the discussion in Osnabrück. For an in-depth discussion about the future of our BISE community and the challenge of connecting academia and industry, I would like to refer to my BISE-editorial ''On Dinosaurs, Measurement Ideologists, Separatists, and Happy Souls -Proposing and Justifying a Way to Make the Global IS/BISE Community Happy'' (Buhl et al 2012a) and the JAIS-paper ''Business and information systems engineering: a complementary approach to information systems -what we can learn from the past and may conclude from present reflection on the future'' (Buhl et al 2012b). Both papers discuss different ways of how to combine research with practical impact, and how to use the North American Information Systems (NAIS) community and the Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) community from the Germanspeaking countries as reliable proxies for this discussion.…”