Investigating the Artificial Intelligence Debate in Organisation and Management Studies

Nowadays, the number of organisations inside Industry 4.0 adopting new technologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuously increasing. Scholars are not neglecting this phenomenon, investigating related topics, not only from a technological point of view but also in the organisational and societal domains. The goal of this paper is to provide a broad overview of the current debate on AI in organisation studies. To this end, we decided to perform a bibliometric analysis on 1102 articles published in journals belonging to organisation and management fields of the Academic Journal Guide. As a result, we identified a publication increase concerning societal and ethical issues about AI. Furthermore, through a co-word analysis, we mapped and described the main topics related to our research domain, finding that many of them are experiencing a period of renewed interest from academics. The following research is a starting point to deepen knowledge on AI and to find insights that could lead to new research opportunities.