Further empirical research is required on the business value
that IS interoperability generates, examining various existing IS
interoperability architectures, frameworks, methods and standards.
It is important to investigate empirically the business value
not only of the ‘technical’ interoperability, but also of the
‘organizational’ interoperability as well, and their complementarities.
Furthermore, it is necessary to understand better the
mediators of the relations between various IS interoperability
architectures/frameworks/methods/standards adoption and business
performance. In this direction it would be useful to examine
the mediating role in these relations of the advanced business
practices facilitated by IS interoperability, which have been
mentioned in Section 2 (e.g. using structural equations modelling
techniques); this would enable a better understanding of how IS
interoperability business value is generated and how it can be
increased.