Dangerous and Beneficial Drifts of Standards in the Modern Working Environment

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Andrea Fried
• Subject Area: Accounting and Finance ; Software Engineering and Programming Languages
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 252328703

The research program DaDriS takes up an important aspect of modern organizations in industrialized as well as developing countries: the increasing appearance of standards in economic activities. In the light of the recent economic developments and the imposed dependency of economic decisions on standards we consider it as important to elaborate on the challenges, changes and risks organizations are faced with in an audit society of organized uncertainty nowadays. DaDriS thereby focuses on process management standards. The aim is to study in the long run the evolvement as well as dangerous and other drifts of these standards in situ and from different stakeholder s point of view. Special attention is thereby given to German and South African software development organizations and to changes in their innovative capacity. Additionally, DaDriS is framed as a joint research project and involves cooperation with the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria,South Africa (developing country status). South Africa is an outsourcee nation in global software development projects. DaDriS investigates here whether and how its innovative capacity is destroyed by hegemonic drifts of software process standards in outsourcing settings.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: South Africa
• Participating Institution: Tshwane University of Technology ; Faculty of ICT; University of the Witwatersrand ; Joburg Centre for Software Engineering
• Participating Person: Dr. Agnieta Pretorius