Ein wichtiger Eckpfeiler des Selbstverständnisses der Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) isteine methodenpluralistische Erkenntnisstrategie, die sich Instrumenten aus Real-,Formal- und Ingenieurswissenschaften bedient.1 Vor dieser Grundposition tendiertdie deutschsprachige WI – im Gegensatz zu ihrer...

Immaterial information products (“content”) can be represented in digital form, which is anadvantage but also a source of problems. It is fundamentally impossible to prevent copyingof digital data, which is just a stream of bits – ones and zeros: Once you can read it, you cancopy it. With...

Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and...