...Shuang Liu Purpose This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding how artificial intelligence transforms organizational change through recursive reprogramming of decision premises. Drawing on Luhmann’s social systems theory, it conceptualizes AI as evolutionary communication medium...

... as decision premises that guide the change of further decision premises. Findings The analysis suggests that the pig industry’s change structures predominantly enable changes that cut costs and optimize the production, which may conflict with and possibly foreclose the changes needed to realize...