Call for Papers
Journal of Management Studies
Special Issue
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
ORGANIZATIONAL POSSIBILITIES AND PITFALLS
Submission Deadline: 15th August 2023
Guest editors:
Dominic Chalmers, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK
Richard Hunt, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, USA
Stella Pachidi, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
David Townsend, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, USA
JMS editor:
Kristina Potočnik, University of Edinburgh Business School, University of Edinburgh, UK.
CALL FOR PAPERS
After more than a half-century of frustrating false starts and expensive disappointments, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now impacting business and society in ways that technologists and futurists have long predicted (Chalmer, Mackenzie, & Carter, 2021; Obschonka & Audretsch, 2020; Townsend & Hunt, 2019). Such is the pervasiveness of AI, defined as "the ability of machines to perform human-like cognitive tasks, including the automation of physical processes such as manipulating and moving objects, sensing, perceiving, problem solving, decision making and innovation" (Benbya, Davenport, & Pachidi, 2020: 9), that it is being simultaneously used to control nuclear fusion (Katwala, 2022), revolutionize cancer therapy (Ho, 2020) and wage automated war (Johnson, 2019). AI has also been adopted within organizational settings, transforming a range of common workplace tasks. Recruitment processes now routinely use facial recognition to screen candidates (van den Broek, Sergeeva, & Huysman, 2021), sales functions become automated (Pachidi, Berends, Faraj, & Huysman, 2021), and new forms of employee surveillance are deployed, with often harmful consequences, to optimize labor (Rahman, 2021). Perhaps most significantly, activities previously thought to be the preserve of human cognition seem to be penetrated by AI tools and functionalities. For example, large language models such as GPT3 and PaLM are being experimentally applied to tasks that require abstract reasoning (Narang & Chowdhery, 2022) and creativity (Amabile, 2019).
The diffusion of these technologies into daily organizational life is stimulating a range of new practices that require theoretical exploration and explanation. Specifically, for every advance brought about by AI, there is often a countervailing harm that tends to affect more vulnerable members of the workforce and society (Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, & Shmitchell, 2021; Crawford, 2021; Pasquale, 2019). Thus, while evidence shows that AI can empower individuals to achieve remarkable feats, this is balanced against numerous unintended consequences such as the use of AI as a means of unprecedented and unchecked managerial control (Kellogg, Valentine, & Christin, 2020; Zuboff, 2019), utter transformation of the organizing regime (Faraj & Pachidi 2021), humans doubting their own judgment (Lebovitz, Lifshitz-Assaf, & Levina, 2022), and workers trying to game the system (Cameron, 2022). To understand the conflicted nature of AI in organizations therefore, our special issue seeks to critically examine how the benefits and harms of AI can be navigated to achieve a range of positive organizational outcomes.
Complete Special Call: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/14676486/JMS%20SI-AI%20Call%20for%20Papers-1659516051077.pdf
SUBMISSION PROCESS AND DEADLINES
Submission deadline: 15th August 2023
Expected publication: 2025
Submissions should be prepared using the JMS Manuscript Preparation Guidelines (http://www.socadms.org.uk/journal-management-studies/submission-guidelines/)
Manuscripts should be submitted using the JMS ScholarOne system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmstudies)
Articles will be reviewed according to the JMS double-blind review process.
We welcome informal enquiries relating to the Special Issue, proposed topics, and potential fit with the Special Issue objectives. Please direct any questions on the Special Issue to the Guest Editors:
Dominic Chalmers: dominic.chalmers@glasgow.ac.uk
Rick Hunt: rickhunt@vt.edu
Stella Pachidi: s.pachidi@jbs.cam.ac.uk
David Townsend: dtown@vt.edu
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Richard Hunt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Research Director - Apex Center for Entrepreneurs
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA
rickhunt@vt.edu------------------------------