“…German textbooks, in contrast, often adopt an engineering-like perspective on the management of IT and devote only minor parts of the text to strategic concerns in IS. This can easily be demonstrated with the contents of those German textbooks which are published in their third or higher edition: The chapters devoted to strategic management concerns include 44 out of 516 pages [Krcm05], 120 pages out of 588 pages [HeLe95], or 44 out of 1001 pages [BiMR04;BiMR07]. But even those parts of the text that are claimed to address strategic questions cover more general themes such as technology management, communication management, quality management, security management, innovation management, knowledge management, and controlling.…”