Requirements engineering (RE) involves the critical activities required to capture customers’ requirements/needs accurately. RE is a communication-intensive activity. As culture plays a major role in the way individuals communicate and perform a task, RE activities might be strongly influenced by individuals’ cultures. However, there are very few published works on this issue. The goal of this study is to explore the influence of national culture on RE activities as reported in existing studies. We carried out a systematic review of literature from five digital databases supplemented with the snowballing technique to retrieve papers which were published between 1990 and 2018. By applying a thematic approach for the identification and analysis of cultural aspects, we identified 16 cultural characteristics that influence RE activities. The identified aspects were mapped into Hofstede’s cultural model. This study increases RE researchers’ and practitioner’s awareness of the influence of national culture on RE activities. The results of this study confirm that, to date, cultural studies in the field of RE are insufficient and more empirical studies are required.

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文化对需求工程活动的影响：系统的文献回顾和分析

需求工程 (RE) 涉及准确捕获客户需求/需求所需的关键活动。RE 是一种交流密集型活动。由于文化在个人交流和执行任务的方式中起着重要作用，因此可再生能源活动可能会受到个人文化的强烈影响。但是，关于这个问题的已发表的作品很少。本研究的目的是探索民族文化对现有研究报告的可再生能源活动的影响。我们对来自五个数字数据库的文献进行了系统审查，并辅以滚雪球技术，以检索 1990 年至 2018 年间发表的论文。通过应用主题方法识别和分析文化方面，我们确定了 16 个影响可再生能源的文化特征活动。确定的方面被映射到霍夫斯泰德的文化模型中。这项研究提高了可再生能源研究人员和从业者对民族文化对可再生能源活动影响的认识。本研究的结果证实，迄今为止，可再生能源领域的文化研究是不够的，需要更多的实证研究。