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This book introduces readers to modern organizational concepts and their consequences for working people in the digital economy. Decentralization, networking, the merging of the physical and virtual worlds, and the ever-increasing interaction of human and artificial intelligence are (re) shaping organization and leadership. Digital technologies are changing the coordination of internal and external organizational processes and require new competencies. The aim of the book is to illustrate these interrelationships in a theoretically sound and practical manner.
The book is intended for students of business management and practicing business managers alike.
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Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Arnold Picot was Chairman of the Institute for Information, Organization and Management at the Faculty of Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, and Chairman of the Board of MÜNCHNER KREIS, an international association for communication research.
Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Ralf Reichwald is Professor of Management at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany, and held the Chair of Business Administration - Information, Organization and Management at the TUM School of Management at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Rolf T. Wigand Rolf T. Wigand was most recently associated with the Emeritus College at Arizona State University (USA). Before that, he was Maulden-Entergy Chair and Professor Emeritus of Information Science and Information Systems at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (USA). He was also director of the Graduate Program in Information Management and founding director of the Center for Digital Commerce, both at Syracuse University (USA).
Prof. Dr. Kathrin M. Möslein is Vice President at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and holds the Chair for Information Systems, Innovation & Value Creation at FAU, Germany. She is also a research professor at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and continues to serve as Academic Director of the Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC), Germany.
Dr. Rahild Neuburger is the operational head of the research center “Information, Organization and Management” of the LMU Munich School of Management at Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. She is also the managing director of the MÜNCHNER KREIS, an international association for communication research.
Prof. Dr. Anne-Katrin Neyer holds the Chair of Human Resources and Business Governance at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She is Chief People Officer at Women in AI (WAI), a non-profit do-tank that advocates for more diversity and inclusion in the design of AI worldwide and co-initiator of the AI-HR Lab in Germany.
Summary
This book introduces readers to modern organizational concepts and their consequences for working people in the digital economy. Decentralization, networking, the merging of the physical and virtual worlds, and the ever-increasing interaction of human and artificial intelligence are (re) shaping organization and leadership. Digital technologies are changing the coordination of internal and external organizational processes and require new competencies. The aim of the book is to illustrate these interrelationships in a theoretically sound and practical manner.
The book is intended for students of business management and practicing business managers alike.
