Special Issue Call for Papers - AI and Machine Learning: What General Managers Need To Know
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全文截稿: 2019-01-31
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Business Horizons invites submissions for a special issue, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: What General Managers Need to Know. Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, and translation between languages. Machine Learning, in turn, represents application of AI that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed to do so. It focuses on the development of computer programs that can access data and use it to learn for themselves, so that they improve over time. Over the last decade, key technological advances in AI and machine learning have caught the attention of practitioners and researchers interested in learning how organizations can use these technologies effectively. As a result, calls for research on AI and machine learning have increased, both for solid foundations that provide useful and highly citable frameworks and typologies and for more nuanced research of the application of such technologies. This research is critical and ongoing. Less attention, however, has been given to what AI means to practicing managers. Practicing managers may ask simpler but equally profound questions such as: “What is this stuff?” “How will it affect and change my business?” “What threats and opportunities will face me?” “How will AI and machine learning change the way we produce things?” “How will AI and machine learning impact the ways in which we interact with customer, suppliers, intermediaries, employees, and other stakeholders?” “What changes might we need to make to supply chains and other systems to accommodate the implementation of AI and machine leaning systems?” And, of course, “Are there useful decision-making models and frameworks that will make my search for opportunities easier and more effective, and my decision making more in touch with reality?”
With this special issue, we propose to add to the emerging body of knowledge by focusing directly on AI and machine learning from a practitioner perspective. Given this goal, we encourage submissions that contribute to an enhanced understanding of the impact of these technologies on organizations. As a host of activities in organizations will be affected by these technologies, authors might address issues related to operations, delivery and logistics systems, human resources management, marketing, overall strategy, and/or the corporate governance issues that will confront organizations in this regard.
Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to AI and machine learning and their impact on:
- competition, strategies, and tactics
- influence on the production/consumption encounter
- new offerings development and innovation
- relationship management and the changing seller-buyer relationship/culture