We start from the Klaus Julisch’s (2008) IT compliance problem definition and make an attempt to formulate the enterprise architecture compliance problem (EACP). The challenging issues comprise the complexity of the law phenomenon, compliance frameworks and methodologies to check EA for noncompliance with laws and regulations. We hold that a compliance methodology should take into account “shar...

Assuring compliance of business processes with legal and internal regulations is crucial for financial institutions, as non-compliance may lead to severe financial and juridical penalties. To ensure business process compliance, process models have been established as a widely accepted basis for the design, documentation and control of the implementation of business process rules. Accordingly, i...

Process compliance measurement is getting increasing attention in companies due to stricter legal requirements and market pressure for operational excellence. On the other hand, the metrics to quantify process compliance have only been defined recently. A major criticism points to the fact that existing measures appear to be unintuitive. In this paper, we trace back this problem to a more found...

While playing an increasingly important role across various industries, the efficient management of legal and regulatory compliance requirements remains a challenge in modern organizations. Commonly, compliance is handled by separate organizational units and not well integrated with core business processes. Based on the area of information systems (IS) controls as mechanism to fulfil given requ...

This Article examines treaty body compliance discourse through an examination of the CEDAW Committee’s jurisprudence related to sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on the constructivist literature and the sociological framing literature, Part I of this article introduces adoption and adaptation as key features for domestically enforcing treaty obligations. Part I also introduces the CEDAW Committee com...

The study of compliance with international agreements has gained momentum over the past few years. Since the conclusion of World War II, this research agenda had been marginalized by the predominance of realist approaches to the study of international relations. However, alternative perspectives have developed that suggest that international law and institutions are important influences on the ...

Compliance checking is gaining importance as today’s organizations need to show that their business practices are in accordance with predefined (legal) requirements. Current compliance checking techniques are mostly focused on checking the control-flow perspective of business processes. This paper presents an approach for checking the compliance of observed process executions taking into accoun...