Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) is at a turning point. Planning, designing, developing and operating IT used to be a management task of a few elites in public ad-ministrations and corporations. But the continuous digitization of nearly all areas of life changes the IT...

The objective of the article is to examine the management competences of founders which are relevant for the success of growth-oriented companies. A survey showed that the demands on management competences during the different stages of new ventures vary significantly. In this context the stages...