Speaker: Dr. Markus P. Zimmer

Abstract: Responsibility receives increasing attention in IS research and practice. IS scholars study, for example, digital responsibility, corporate digital responsibility, responsible AI or matters of digital and environmental sustainability (e.g. Green IS). These concepts often take a substantive view on responsibility. They define responsibility as ensuring digital sustainability, functionality, or data privacy and security. In his talk, Markus P. Zimmer speaks about ongoing conceptual work on taking a procedural review on studying responsibility in IS phenomena. A view that emerged from his interest in empirically studying organisations’ digital–sustainable co-transformation (or twin transformation) as one example of responsible digital transformation. 

Short Bio: Markus P. Zimmer is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Information Systems at Leuphana University of Lüneburg and adjunct Professor (Docent) in Information Systems Science, specifically Responsible Digital Transformation, at Turku School of Economics at 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, digital technologies and responsibility. In particular, he studies Digital Transformation Strategy Making, Digital Workplace Transformation, Digital-Sustainable Co-Transformation, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence.