Letter to the Editor: Statements on the Contribution by Urbach et al. from Issue 4/2009

In the section BISE – Discussion you usually find discussions of several distinguished experts on important and topical issues of the field. In addition, the section offers the possibility to publish letters to the editor (e.g., on recently published contributions), thereby promoting the scientific discourse. The following is a statement by the colleagues Peter Mertens and Matthias Schumann on the contribution “The State of Research on Information Systems Success – A Review of Existing Multidimensional Approaches” by Urbach et al. (2009b), which appeared in issue 4/2009 in the section BISE – State of the Art, and subsequent comments by the authors. The authors of the critical statement primarily focus on the question of which benefits result from the working results of researchers in business and information systems engineering (BISE) for economy and society. This fundamental issue certainly requires further discussion within the BISE community, which we intend to trigger by the presentation of the following two positions. If you would like to comment on this topic or another article of the journal Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), please send your contribution (max. 2 pages) to [email protected].