AIMS AND SCOPE

Building a Bridge to Practice

AIRM is committed to supporting educators, researchers, business leaders, and policymakers as they navigate today’s complex global landscape. AIRM offers a unique scholarly venue to explore how AI can serve as a catalyst for responsible management across disciplines. Alignment with the core challenges of academia and the global sustainability agenda, AIRM will empower organizations to develop collaborative partnerships and AI-enabled solutions that are ethical and ready for real-world implementation.

AIRM is a joint collaboration between Emerald's leadership in the publishing world and the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), a United Nations-supported initiative that aims to raise the profile of sustainability in business and management education through Seven Principles: Purpose, Values, Teach, Research, Partner, Practice and Share, focused on serving society and safeguarding our planet.

Aims & scope

AIRM is a hybrid, peer-reviewed journal that explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied across key business disciplines, industry and policymaking to address the complex challenges of responsible management. Grounded in the foundational principles of ethics, sustainability, accountability, stakeholder engagement, inclusivity, and transformational leadership, AIRM invites research that reflects the realities of modern organizations: interconnected functions, global pressures, and the urgent need for collaborative solutions. Rather than examining business disciplines in isolation, AIRM encourages transdisciplinary scholarship that investigates how AI can support collaboration with external societal partners—enabling organizations to respond to global challenges with coherence, agility, and integrity. It deeply engages those affected by a problem to focus action and drive socially responsible solutions.

AIRM is designed to reflect the core subject areas taught in academic programs worldwide, with a focus on how AI can help academia, business, and government collaborate to solve real-world problems. The journal welcomes contributions that explore discipline-specific challenges while emphasizing the need for cross-functional understanding and integrated approaches. Some suggestions include using AI in the following sectors.

  • Ethics and Corporate Governance
  • Sustainability and Global Strategy
  • Leadership and Organizational Behaviour
  • Marketing and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Finance and ESG Reporting
  • Human Resources and Inclusive Cultures

AIRM encourages submissions that not only address these challenges but also explore how AI can facilitate collaboration across functions—leading to visionary yet implementable partnerships. AIRM is designed to reflect the core subject areas taught in business programs worldwide, with a focus on how AI can help business functions work together to solve real-world problems. The journal welcomes contributions that explore discipline-specific challenges while also emphasizing the need for cross-functional understanding and integrated approaches.

EDITORIAL SCOPE

Artificial Intelligence and Responsible Management publishes articles on the following topics:

1. Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

  • Challenge: Navigating ethical dilemmas in fast-paced, data-driven environments.
  • Focus: How AI can reinforce ethical decision-making, transparency, and stakeholder trust across departments.

2. Sustainability and Global Strategy

  • Challenge: Aligning business growth with environmental and social responsibility.
  • Focus: How AI can support strategic planning, SDG integration, and sustainable innovation across the enterprise.

3. Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

  • Challenge: Developing inclusive, ethical leadership in digitally transforming organizations.
  • Focus: How AI can empower transformational leadership and foster responsible organizational cultures.

4. Marketing and Stakeholder Engagement

  • Challenge: Building authentic relationships in an era of algorithmic personalization and data privacy concerns.
  • Focus: How AI can enhance stakeholder inclusivity, transparency, and participatory governance.

5. Operations and Supply Chain Management

  • Challenge: Managing complexity, risk, and sustainability in global supply chains.
  • Focus: How AI can optimize operations while supporting ethical sourcing and circular economy models.

6. Finance and Responsible Business Reporting

  • Challenge: Meeting rising demands for accountability, transparency, and impact measurement.
  • Focus: How AI can improve societal impact analytics, financial reporting, and responsible investment strategies.

7. Human Resources and DEI

  • Challenge: Creating equitable workplaces and mitigating bias in talent management.
  • Focus: How AI can support culture and engagement, bias detection, and ethical workforce development.

AIRM encourages submissions that not only address these challenges within each discipline but also explore how AI can facilitate collaboration in academia, industry, and policymaking—leading to strategies that are both visionary and implementable.

Article Types

AIRM publishes a range of scholarly contributions, including:

  • Original Research Articles: Empirical and theoretical studies on AI’s role in addressing responsible management challenges.
  • Conceptual Papers: Frameworks that integrate AI across disciplines to support responsible leadership and governance.
  • Practitioner-Focused Research: Translating academic insights into actionable strategies for managers and teams.
  • Review and Policy Papers: Critical analyses of AI regulation, ethics, and governance across business functions.
  • Impact articles: help authors highlight, measure, and celebrate the real-world influence of their research.