Markus Zimmer
Doctor of Philosophy
Digital Transformation; Digital-Sustainable Co-Transformation; Responsible Artificial Intelligence; Institutionalism and Organisational Change; Improvisation Theory; Digital Infrastructures;
Docent in Information Systems Science, specifically Responsible Digital Transformation
Markus P. Zimmer is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Information Systems at Leuphana University of Lüneburg and adjunct professor (title of Docent) at the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku in Finland. Markus received his PhD in Information Systems from Turku School of Economics on the topic of "Digital Transformation in an Incumbent Organization: The Co-Enactment of Digital Transformation Through Macro- and Micro-Level Activities" in cooperation with Mercedes-Benz AG. His research interest lies at the intersections of organizational change, responsible management and digital technologies. In particular, he studies Digital Transformation Strategy Making, Digital Workplace Transformation, Digital-Sustainable Co-Transformation, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence. His research has been published in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of the Association on Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and major IS conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems.
- Digital transformation of work : Theorizing the process from an identity theory perspective (2026)
- Journal of Strategic Information Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Beyond Digital vs. IT : The Untold Story of Their Relationship from an Organizing Logic Perspective (2025)
- Information Systems Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Criticality and Values in Digital Transformation Research: Insights from a Workshop (2023)
- Communications of the Association for Information Systems
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Digital workplace transformation: Subtraction logic as deinstitutionalising the taken-for-granted (2023)
- Journal of Strategic Information Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Responsibility of/in digital transformation (2023)
- Journal of Responsible Technology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Are We Discovering or Making Concepts? Performativity in Concept Defining (2022)
- Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Clustering Design Science Research Based on the Nature of the Designed Artifact (2022)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Digital–Sustainable Co-transformation: Introducing the Triple Bottom Line of Sustainability to Digital Transformation Research (2022)
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Dividing Apples and Pears: Towards a Taxonomy for Agile Transformation (2022)
- Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Responsible Artificial Intelligence Systems Critical considerations for business model design (2022)
- Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



