Marko Ilmari Niemimaa

• Aanestad, Margunn; Hanseth, Ole; Monteiro, Eric; Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari & Ribes, David (2024). From Methodological Symmetry to Gaia: Latour’s Legacy and Untapped Potential for IS Research. Journal of the AIS. ISSN 1536-9323. 25(2), p. 182–195. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00881.
• Nwachukwu, Uchechukwu; Vidgren, Jiri; Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari & Järveläinen, Jonna (2023). Do SETA Interventions Change Security Behavior? : A Literature Review. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN 1530-1605. p. 6300–6309.
• Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari; Schultze, Ulrike & van den Heuvel, Gijs (2023). Methodological practices for enacting “strong” sociomateriality in qualitative IS research. In Davison, Robert M. (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 978 1802205381. p. 182–196. doi: 10.4337/9781802205398.00017.
• Tokerud, Simen; Jansen, Jarand; Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari & Järveläinen, Jonna (2023). Designing Extended Zero Trust Maturity Model – From Technical to Socio-Technical. In Rahul, De´ (Eds.), ICIS 2023 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems (AIS). ISSN 978-1-958200-07-0.
• Zimmer, Markus Philipp; Vasilakopoulou, Polyxeni; Grisot, Miria & Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari (2023). Criticality and Values in Digital Transformation Research: Insights from a Workshop. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. ISSN 1529-3181. 53, p. 964–983. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.05341.
• Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari (2023). Evaluating compliance for organizational information security and business continuity: three strata of ventriloqual agency. Information Technology and People. ISSN 0959-3845. doi: 10.1108/ITP-03-2022-0156. Show summary

  Purpose The purpose of this research is to study how compliance evaluation becomes performed in practice. Compliance evaluation is a common practice among organizations that need to evaluate their posture against a set of criteria (e.g. a standard, legislative framework and “best practices”). The results of these evaluations have significant importance for organizations, especially in the context of information security and continuity. The author argues that how these evaluations become performed is not merely a “social” activity but shaped by the materiality of the evaluation criteria Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt a sociomaterial practice-based view to study the compliance evaluation through in situ participant observations from compliance evaluation workshops to evaluate organizational compliance against a information security and business continuity criteria. The empirical material was analyzed to construct vignettes that serve to illustrate the practice of compliance evaluation. Findings The research analysis shows how the information security and business continuity criteria themselves partake in the compliance evaluations by operating through (ventriloqually) the evaluators on three strata: the material, the textual and the structural. The author also provides a conceptualization of a hybrid agency. Originality/value This research contributes to lack of studies on the organizational-level compliance. Further, the research is an original contribution to information security and business continuity management by focusing on the practices of compliance evaluation. Further, the research has theoretical novelty by adopting the ventriloqual agency as a hybrid agency to study the sociomateriality of a phenomenon.

• Järveläinen, Jonna; Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari & Zimmer, Markus P. (2022). Designing a Thrifty Approach for SME Business Continuity: Practices for Transparency of the Design Process. Journal of the AIS. ISSN 1536-9323. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00771.
• Järveläinen, Jonna; Zimmer, Markus P. & Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari (2022). The Importance of Business Continuity for Making Business: The Case of Design Kitchen. In BohMann, Tilo; Hui, Kai-Lung & Venkatesh, Viswanath (Ed.), ICIS 2022 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems (AIS). ISSN 978-1-958200-03-2.
• Järveläinen, Jonna; Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari & Zimmer, Markus P. (2022). Designing a Thrifty Approach for SME Business Continuity: Practices for Transparency of the Design Process. Journal of the AIS. ISSN 1536-9323. 23(6), p. 1557–1602. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00771. Show summary

  Business continuity (BC) management is an organizational approach to preparing information systems (IS) for incidents, but such approaches are uncommon among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Past research has indicated a gap in approaches that are designed for SMEs since BC management approaches tend to originate from larger organizations and SMEs lack the resources to implement them. To fill this gap, and to respond to a practical need by an IT consultancy company, we employed design science research (DSR) to develop a BC approach for SMEs coined as the thrifty BC management approach. Jointly with the company’s practitioners, we developed a set of meta-requirements for BC approaches for SMEs anchored in prior BC literature, practitioners’ practical expertise, and the theories of collective mindfulness and sociotechnical systems. We evaluated our thrifty BC management approach with multiple SMEs. These evaluations suggest that the designed approach mostly meets the defined meta-requirements. Moreover, the evaluations offered ample opportunities for learning. The design process, unfolding in a real-world setting, was precarious, rife with contingencies and ad hoc decisions. To render the design process transparent, we adapted four writing conventions from the confessional research genre familiar to ethnographic research but novel to DSR. We offer a threefold contribution. First, we contribute to SMEs’ BC with meta-requirements and their instantiation in a new BC approach (artifact); second, we contribute with four practices of confessional writing for transparency of DSR research; and third, we contribute with reflections on our theoretical learning from throughout the design process.

• Schultze, Ulrike; van den Heuvel, Gijs & Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari (2020). Enacting Accountability in IS Research after the Sociomaterial Turn(ing). Journal of the AIS. ISSN 1536-9323. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00620.
• Zimmer, Markus & Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari (2020). Cultivating a ‘Digital Jungle’ : Toward a Hybrid Governance Perspective on InfrastructureEvolution, Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). Association of Information Systems. ISSN 978-1-7336325-3-9.
• Schultze, Ulrike; van den Heuvel, Gijs & Niemimaa, Marko Ilmari (2020). Enacting Accountability in IS Research after the Sociomaterial Turn(ing). Journal of the AIS. ISSN 1536-9323. 21(4), p. 811–835. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00620.

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