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Wednesday 1 October

Technomania BrAIn StageEnglish

AI has the potential to transform organizational decision making. Building on a seminal organizational theory that conceptualizes organizations as interpretation systems, the progressive replacement of humans by AI is theorized. This replacement involves performing organization’s fundamental activities underpinning the processes of scanning, interpretation, and learning that encompass an organization’s interaction with its environment. As a result, organizations cease to be human interpretation systems, and instead turn into digital enactment systems where digital technologies, instead of humans, nearly autonomously create and act upon information. This transformation redefines the relationship among organizations, information, and environment, changing the role of humans, and reshaping strategy making. Thus conceived, AI transforms organizational decision making and consequently the nature of organizations and organizing in the digital age. Bio: Ioanna Constantiou is a Full Professor at the Department of Digitalization in Copenhagen Business . She served as the academic director of the CBS’s Business in Society initiative on Digital Transformations. From 2017 to 2020, Ioanna Constantiou was employed, as a Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Applied IT in University of Gothenburg in Sweden (part-time from July 2017). She received her Ph.D. from Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business in 2003. Her current research work focuses on the impact of digital transformation on traditional industries as well the impact of digital technologies on everyday life. Her research has been published in academic outlets, including, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, the Journal of Information Technology, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems, the Decision Support Systems and MISQ Executive. Ioanna Constantiou currently serves as a senior editor in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems and the Electronic Markets journal.

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