Mona Mirtsch

Building	H
Room	H 4140 A

Academic Career

PhD (Dr. rer. oec.), dissertation title: Exploring the adoption and diffusion of the international management system standard ISO/IEC 27001 for information security, 2020
Since 09/2017: PhD candidate at the chair of innovation economics at TU Berlin
M.Sc. in Business Administration (Diplom-Kauffrau) with focus on international business and marketing, European University Frankfurt Oder, 2006.
M.Sc. in Business Administration, San Diego State University, USA, 2004.
B.Sc. in Business Administration (Diplom-Betriebswirtin BA), Berufsakademie Berlin, 2002.

Professional Experience

since 09/2017: BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing; researcher.
2011-2017: Dr. Mirtsch Wölbstrukturierung GmbH; Head of Marketing & Sales.
2006-2010: Unilever Deutschland GmbH, Trainee & Brand Manager.
2005-2006: Research assistant at the Chair of Marketing from Prof. Dr. Gröppel-Klein, European University Frankfurt (Oder).
1999-2012: Weberbank Privatbankiers KGaA, Apprentice.

Research interests

Quality Infrastructure management (with a focus on standardization, conformity assessment, and accreditation)
Information security management
Cybersecurity

Current projects

QI-FoKuS

Publications

Mirtsch, M., Koch, C., Ashari, P. A., Blind, K., & Castka, P. (2022). Quality assurance in supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic: empirical evidence on organisational resilience of conformity assessment bodies<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14783363.2022.2078189>. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 1-22.
Koch, C., Asna Ashari, P., Mirtsch, M., Blind, K., & Castka, P. (2022). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on accredited conformity assessment bodies: insights from a multinational study<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00769-022-01514-x>. Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 27(5), 275-288.
Mirtsch, M., Blind, K., Koch, C., & Dudek, G. (2021). Information Security Management in ICT and Non-ICT Sector Companies: A Preventive Innovation Perspective. Computers & Security, 102383.
Schlegel, M. C., Koch, C., Mirtsch, M., & Harrer, A. (2021). Smart Products Enable Smart Regulations—Optimal Durability Requirements Facilitated by the IoT. Sustainability, 13(8), 4395.
Mirtsch, M., Kinne, J., & Blind, K. (2020). Exploring the adoption of the international information security management system standard ISO/IEC 27001: A web mining-based analysis. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 68(1), 87-100.
Mirtsch, M., Pohlisch, J. and Blind, K., 2020. International diffusion of the information security management system standard ISO/IEC 27001: exploring the role of culture. In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), An Online AIS Conference, June 15-17, 2020.
Mirtsch, M. (2019), Konformitätsbewertung im Bereich Cybersicherheit. In: Mangelsdorf, A. & Weiler, P. (Eds.) (2019). Normen und Standards für die digitale Transformation. Werkzeuge, Praxisbeispiele und Entscheidungshilfen für innovative Unternehmen, Normungsorganisationen und politische Entscheidungsträger. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 141-164.
De Vries, H., Jakobs, K., Egyedi, T.M., Eto, M., Fertig, S., Kanevskaia, O., Klintner, L., Koch, C., Mijatovic, I., Mirtsch, M. and Morone, P., 2018. Standardization: Towards an agenda for research. International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR), 16(1), pp.52-59.