Table 4.
The evaluation criteria (and supporting references) used in Step 3 to evaluate the viability of the solution options. Criteria marked with * were added after the focus group
| Criteria | Sub-criteria |
|---|---|
| Legal aspects | |
| (Miller and Yeoh 2006) | ∙ Contracts |
| ∙ Licensing and IPR (Krawatzeck et al. 2015) | |
| ∙ *Other issues, e.g. privacy, certification (Kornecki and Zalewski 2005) | |
| Costs | |
| ∙ Entry costs Du Plessis,1993; Petersen et al. 2018; Kornecki and Zalewski 2005; | |
| Church and Matthews 1995; Lester and Wilkie 2004; Brown 1994; | |
| Le Blanc and Korn 1994; Krawatzeck et al. 2015; Post and Kagan 2000) | |
| ∙ Maintenance costs (Kornecki and Zalewski 2005; Brown 1994) | |
| ∙ Scalability costs (Brown 1994; Church and Matthews 1995; | |
| Du Plessis 1993; Kornecki and Zalewski 2005) | |
| *Ethical aspects | |
| ∙ Integrity (Maqbool and Herold 2021) | |
| ∙ Sustainability (Adewumi et al. 2016; Becker et al. 2015) | |
| Sense of control | |
| ∙ Technical leadership (Petersen et al. 2018; Torchiano and Morisio 2004; | |
| Linåker et al. 2018) | |
| ∙ IPR constraints (Linåker et al. 2018) | |
| ∙ Operational speed (Linåker et al. 2018) |