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  •   Free full-text access Open AccessNavigating the digital frontier: thriving in remote work through AI and human connection
    ( Free Full-text Access ) CC-BY-NC-ND
    by Lu Yu, Xiaoxia Zhu, Hong Ren 
    Abstract: This study explores how integrating artificial intelligence (AI) fosters thriving in remote work by combining AI adoption with organisational understanding and social connections. Utilising a quantitative survey of remote workers from three large US universities, we tested a moderated mediation model examining AI adoption, AI-assisted learning, social ties, organisational understanding, and thriving at work. Findings indicate that while AI adoption promotes continuous learning, genuine thriving depends on fulfilling competence, autonomy, and relatedness needs. Organisational understanding and robust social ties are critical for AI to drive thriving among remote workers. This research contributes to the AI in remote work literature by highlighting organisational and social factors as key conditions for AIs positive impact on employee thriving, aligning with self-determination theory. Organisations should support AI with strong social connections and comprehensive role understanding to enhance employee well-being and growth.
    Keywords: AI adoption; AI learning; thriving at work; remote worker; human connection.
    DOI: 10.1504/JBM.2025.10070919
     
  •   Free full-text access Open AccessEngineering of a proactive stakeholder culture
    ( Free Full-text Access ) CC-BY-NC-ND
    by Mohammad A. Ali, Stephen J. Jones 
    Abstract: This study builds on previous scholarly works that argue that stakeholder management is a normative process and that organisations should develop a proactive stakeholder orientation to get the optimal benefit of stakeholder management. We add to the extant literature by conducting an exploratory, inductive, qualitative case study to improve our understanding of how proactive stakeholder organisations engineer and maintain a culture that supports a proactive stakeholder orientation. We argue that proactive stakeholder culture must be studied because it represents unique and specific philosophical underpinnings rather than ethical or socially responsible cultures. The study makes several contributions to the scholarly literature on stakeholder culture. First, the study builds theoretical generalisations of the phenomenon under consideration. Second, it provides the best practices and content for developing proactive stakeholder cultures. Third, it defines and discovers a critical moderator, i.e., confining pressure, between well-established stakeholder cultural values and psychological stages of ethical decision making. Finally, the study has an inferential contribution that a strong proactive culture may help organisational members successfully go through the stages of moral decision-making, as Rest (1986) enumerated.
    Keywords: stakeholder management; stakeholder theory; stakeholder culture; descriptive stakeholder theory.
    DOI: 10.1504/JBM.2025.10070924
     

 

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