Main ISSN: 2177-2371 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21714/2177-2371EnEO2022
UFG, Goiânia-GO, Brazil
The 12th ANPAD Organizational Studies Conference - EnEO 2025 will be held on June 11th to 13th, 2025, at Universidade Federal de Goiás, promoted by ANPAD - Brazilian Academy of Management under the responsibility of the academic division EOR – Organizational Studies.
Central theme: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Digital Colonialism: challenges and impacts on Management
Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithm-mediated management are linked to a significant potential for redefining practices, relationships and expectations at work and in society. In this context, organizational studies are well placed to analyze its challenges and impacts for teaching, practice and research in Administration. Oliveira and Neves (2023) establish a dialogue between AI and the field of organizational studies by highlighting some relative challenges: (a) the challenge of “confronting the digital colonialism that AIs impose on us, considering that they are constituted through the reproduction of language models programmed in countries of the ‘Global North’” (Oliveira & Neves, 2023, p. 397) and (b) the challenge related to what they call the automation of academic writing in Administration. With regard to management mediated by algorithms, Neves, Vianna and Sutil (2021) argue that algocracy, as a model of governance based on algorithms (Annesh, 2009; Danaher, 2016), promotes significant impacts on decision-making about the activities and ways of evaluating workers. In this context, algorithms are becoming increasingly present in work management (Kellogg et al., 2020).
When analyzed from the broad perspective of critical thinking and, more specifically, digital colonialism (Faustino and Lippold, 2023), the themes of AI and algorithm-mediated management mobilize a call for important and necessary discussions on the challenges and impacts of both on aspects such as: (1) teaching practices; (2) research practices; (3) organizational learning; (4) configurations of labor relations; (5) opacities of systems of production and appropriation of knowledge; (6) environmental implications, such as boosting the demand for energy and minerals; (7) configurations of the labor market; (8) subsidizing decision-making that impacts an entire society; (9) democracy and participation; (10) ethics; (11) privacy, data use and digital surveillance; (12) governance models; (13) the camouflage of algorithmic racism maintained through AI; (14) the modus operandi of platform capitalism and its harmful consequences for the dignity of labor; and (15) the maintenance and creation of new mechanisms for perpetuating various social inequalities, among others.
We invite the EOR community and other interlocutor communities to engage in this discussion, which is the general theme of EnEO 2025!
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