I think that each country according to its culture performs the area of requirements engineering. As the culture of each country is different, then the way to perform the requirements engineering is also different.

Thank you César Munder Calderín. I completely agree with you. This way I would like to investigate more in this matter, but I did not find many studies on this field.  

Hi Tawfeeq, I attach a paper that might be of interest for you. It deals with software cost estimation taking into account cultural issue management.

Regards,

I.S.

Hi Tawfeeq , you are addressing a bit unique and prospective topic , I think you can start your research by mapping to a cultural dimension theory such as Hostfede or Hunt & weintraub. for example Hunt& weintraub classify cultures into High context culture and Low Context . Saudi Arabia may be a model of High context culture where there is more valuing to the communication protocol and you need to go through a cycle of discussions and revision to tackle the required point , This might give us some insights why The classical waterfall requirement engineering is still dominant in Saudi Arabia while the adoption of agile methods in Saudi Arabia is relatively low in relation to the global trend toward Agility and the emphasis on customer collaboration over comprehensive documentation.

In Hostfede , you can also point to the power distance index , Individualism and Uncertainity avoidance and how they may shape the requirement elicitation and management processes,

Hi Tawfeeq,

let me point you to a talk, that is probably

* not yet real research and

* not focused only the the "first phase" of software development (requirements engineering) but on the whole process as seen by Scrum,

BUT

* based at least on a little survey,

* building on the Hofstede dimensions, and

* very entertaining and inspiring and thus a good starting point.

Namely: "Scrum doesn't work in China!?" from Bas Vodde presented in 2010.

There is a short note about it in Bas Vodde's blog (https://blog.odd-e.com/basvodde/2010/06/scrum-and-culture.html) linking to a video of his presentation (http://www.infoq.com/cn/presentations/bas_scrum_china) and the slides are available (https://www.odd-e.com/material/2010/scrum_shanghai/culture.pdf) as well.

For your own research you probably need to add more methodology. My first stop for methodology in software engineering research is Steve Easterbrook, Janice Singer, Margaret-Anne Storey, Daniela Damian: "Selecting Empirical Methods for Software Engineering Research" but you might need to go beyond what they discuss.

Interesting topic! Besides, there seems to be a global software engineering culture developing that might in turn influence the national cultures.

Good luck, dsp