TY  - JOUR
A1  - Becker, Jörg
A1  - Delfmann, Patrick
A1  - Dietrich, Hanns-Alexander
A1  - Steinhorst, Matthias
A1  - Eggert, Mathias
T1  - Business Process Compliance Checking — Applying and Evaluating a Generic Pattern Matching Approach for Conceptual Models in the Financial Sector
JF  - Information Systems Frontiers
N2  - Given the strong increase in regulatory requirements for business processes the management of business process compliance becomes a more and more regarded field in IS research. Several methods have been developed to support compliance checking of conceptual models. However, their focus on distinct modeling languages and mostly linear (i.e., predecessor-successor related) compliance rules may hinder widespread adoption and application in practice. Furthermore, hardly any of them has been evaluated in a real-world setting. We address this issue by applying a generic pattern matching approach for conceptual models to business process compliance checking in the financial sector. It consists of a model query language, a search algorithm and a corresponding modelling tool prototype. It is (1) applicable for all graph-based conceptual modeling languages and (2) for different kinds of compliance rules. Furthermore, based on an applicability check, we (3) evaluate the approach in a financial industry project setting against its relevance for decision support of audit and compliance management tasks.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9529-y
SN  - 1572-9419
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
SP  - 359
EP  - 405
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bernecker, Andreas
T1  - Divided we reform? Evidence from US welfare policies
JF  - Journal of Public Economics
N2  - Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that, under divided government, a US state is around 25% more likely to adopt a welfare reform than under unified government. Several robustness checks confirm this counter-intuitive finding. Case study evidence suggests an explanation based on policy competition between governor, senate, and house.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.08.003
SN  - 0047-2727
VL  - 142
SP  - 24
EP  - 38
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -