Revising the ‘science of the organisation’: Theorizing AI agency and actorhood

van Rijmenam, M; Logue, D

Revising the ‘science of the organisation’: Theorizing AI agency and actorhood

van Rijmenam, M Logue, D

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Publisher:: Informa UK Limited
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Citation:: Innovation: Organization & Management, 2021, 23, (1), pp. 127-144
Issue Date:: 2021-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	van Rijmenam, M
dc.contributor.author	Logue, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-2553
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-23T00:25:34Z
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dc.date.issued	2021-03-01
dc.identifier.citation	Innovation: Organization & Management, 2021, 23, (1), pp. 127-144
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dc.description.abstract	Artificial intelligence is a central technology underpinning the fourth industrial revolution, driving dramatic changes in contemporary cyber-physical systems and challenging existing ways of theorising organisations and management. AI agency and the rise of the artificially intelligent agent are both fundamentally different and yet increasingly similar to human agency in terms of intentionality and reflexivity. As ‘Child AI’ emerges—AI that is created by other AI—the early human design and interaction becomes increasingly distant and removed. These developments, while seemingly futuristic, change the human-technology interface through which we organise. In this essay, we explore understandings of AI agency, capability, and governance, and present implications for organisatonal theorising in sociomateriality, actor-network theory, institutional theory and the behavioral theory of the firm. We contribute to a growing and reflexive research agenda that can accommodate and regenerate theorising around this significant technological advancement.
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dc.publisher	Informa UK Limited
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dc.rights	This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journal Title: Innovation: Organization & Management Article title: Revising the ‘science of the organisation’: Theorizing AI agency and actorhood Authors: Mark van Rijmenam & Danielle Logue Pagination Online publication date Published online: 01 Mar 2021 Copyright is held by Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2020.1816833
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dc.title	Revising the ‘science of the organisation’: Theorizing AI agency and actorhood
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Artificial intelligence is a central technology underpinning the fourth industrial revolution, driving dramatic changes in contemporary cyber-physical systems and challenging existing ways of theorising organisations and management. AI agency and the rise of the artificially intelligent agent are both fundamentally different and yet increasingly similar to human agency in terms of intentionality and reflexivity. As ‘Child AI’ emerges—AI that is created by other AI—the early human design and interaction becomes increasingly distant and removed. These developments, while seemingly futuristic, change the human-technology interface through which we organise. In this essay, we explore understandings of AI agency, capability, and governance, and present implications for organisatonal theorising in sociomateriality, actor-network theory, institutional theory and the behavioral theory of the firm. We contribute to a growing and reflexive research agenda that can accommodate and regenerate theorising around this significant technological advancement.

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