Introduction: Artificial Intelligence in Management
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a popular topic of debate, both within and beyond academia. According to some commentators, we are on the cusp of major social and economic change. The future of work is now to become the present. This introduction aims to lay out some of the emerging and pressing issues relating to AI in management. It is not an attempt at prediction or doomsaying but instead outlines what research questions and methods can equip us to make sense of these changes.
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