http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10604 2026-07-22T22:11:22Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10630 Legal Compatibility as a Characteristic of Sociotechnical Systems Hoffmann, Axel; Schulz, Thomas; Zirfas, Julia; Hoffmann, Holger; Roßnagel, Alexander; Leimeister, Jan Marco Legal compatibility as a characteristic of sociotechnical systems aims at the greatest possible compliance with higher-order legal goals for minimizing social risks of technical systems and extends legality, which refers to the prevention of lawlessness. The paper analyzes the criteria for legal compatibility by reviewing specifications of legally compatible systems and shows goals and resulting requirements to foster legal compatibility. These comprise the following areas: avoiding personal reference in data, ensuring information security, enabling freedom of decision, increasing transparency, ensuring traceability, and increasing usability, whereby traceability and the avoidance of personal reference pursue conflicting goals. The presentation of the goals including their dependencies, relationships, and conflicts in form of standardized requirements explains legal compatibility and summarizes the requirements necessary for the development of legally compatible systems. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10629 Software Quality and Development Speed in Global Software Development Teams Alfaro, Iván; Chandrasekaran, Ranganathan The paper draws on information processing theory to propose that national diversity creates barriers to the integration of information among members of global software development teams, negatively impacting software quality and development speed. However, the effect of such relationships was expected to be contingent upon the amount of time that team members had worked together in the past (i.e., previous working ties). Hypotheses were tested in a field study involving 62 global software development teams distributed across Europe and Central and South America. Teams with high levels of previous working ties developed greater quality software at a faster pace. National diversity had a positive effect on software quality in teams with high levels of previous working ties, but a negative effect in teams with low levels of previous working ties. National diversity also had a negative impact on software development speed, but the effect was less pronounced among teams with high levels of previous working ties than on teams low in previous working ties. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10626 Practice Impact of IS Research Bichler, Martin; Heinzl, Armin; Winter, Robert 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10624 Interview with Ijad Madisch on “The Future of Publishing and Discussing Research” Winter, Robert 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z