Guest editorial: Taking stock and charting the future: the management and implication of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for the changing workplace (Part-1) Available to Purchase

Nawaf AlGhanem (PhD) is Visiting Researcher at Brunel University of London and Co-Chair of the Organizational Transformation, Change and Development Special Interest Group Track, British Academy of Management. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at Brunel University London. His research spans across, organizational change, resilience and impact of network-based leadership on the implementation of UNSDGs. His current research focuses on the impact of integrated energy companies’ transformation and their implementation of SDGs towards addressing environmental, economic and societal sustainability challenges. He has published widely on distributed leadership, network leadership, organizational change and the impact of network leadership on achieving sustainability challenges.

David Sarpong is Professor of Strategy and Head of the Marketing and Strategy Subject Group at Aston Business School. His research is practice and process-oriented and frequently draws on Heideggerian-Wittgensteinian approaches to social practices to engage with cross-level management research problems. David’s research interests primarily focus on the intersection of strategy, international management and innovation. David’s current research concerns rationalism and process theory, second-order technology and innovation management, discursive practices and the world making of European cosmopolitan marketplaces.

Ashley Braganza is Professor of Business Transformation, Director of Brunel’s AI Centre and podcaster. In April 2025, he launched The AI Adoption Podcast, which he hosts on a weekly basis. He founded the Organizational Transformation, Change and Development Special Interest Group and is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He is a Trustee of the Industry Parliamentary Trust. His research interests encompass the effects of AI, big data, change management, strategy implementation, process and knowledge management and transformation enabled information systems. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious academic and practitioner journals and three books. He has carried out over 50 consultancy assignments with large public and private organization.