24002: Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Organizational Design: Charting a New Research Agenda

Saturday, July 26, 2025

08:30 - 10:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Auditorium 12

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/WyxYbM

Organizer(s)

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Devesh Narayanan

Stanford University, United States
AK

Arvind Karunakaran

Stanford U., United States
LV

Luca Vendraminelli

Stanford, United States

Panelist(s)

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Nan Jia

U. of Southern California, United States

Participant(s)

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Phanish Puranam

INSEAD, Singapore
ZS

Zur Shapira

New York University, United States
JL

Jacqueline Lane

Harvard U., United States

This Professional Development Workshop (PDW) aims to explore the diverse implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on innovation, organizational design, and the management of expertise by highlighting recent empirical and conceptual works on this topic, facilitating collective conversations, and charting a research agenda. A first wave of studies on AI and organizations has focused primarily on issues related to trust, adoption, and productivity gains. Building on this initial evidence, this PDW seeks to move toward a broader and more holistic understanding of the impact of AI on the structure and organization of innovation at work – encompassing considerations related to the management of innovation, expertise, and organizational design. In particular, we aim to shed light on the ways in which AI may not only affect the work of individuals, but may ultimately reshape broader structures and designs within which people organize themselves to produce innovations at scale – a phenomenon worthy of sustained scholarly inquiry. Toward this end, this PDW brings together experts employing a range of qualitative (e.g., ethnography) and quantitative (e.g., field experiments) methodologies in an interactive format – including a keynote address, brief research presentations, and an interactive panel discussion. In so doing, we aim to advance scholarship on AI, innovation, and organizational design by building a community of scholars interested in these topics.