This Special Issue explores how technological, demographic, and societal shifts are transforming the way we work. As artificial intelligence, digitalization, and smart technologies reshape jobs, organizations, and careers, the articles in this issue examine both the opportunities and risks these changes bring.
Contributions range from how professionals adapt to AI and digital disruption, to the role of trust, creativity, and expertise in navigating new forms of work. They also highlight how organizations can design resilient structures and practices, and how employees and societies can prepare for the uncertainties ahead. This collection offers fresh insights and practical lessons for leaders, policymakers, and professionals seeking to understand, and shape, the future of work.
Read the full issue here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14676486/2025/62/5 or browse the individual articles below.
Advancing Research on the Future of Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by Riikka M. Sarala, Corinne Post, Jonathan Doh and Daniel Muzio
The AI of the Beholder: Intra-Professional Sensemaking of an Epistemic Technology by Harry Scarbrough, Yaru Chen and Gerardo Patriotta
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust-Building by Antoinette Weibel, Simon Schafheitle and Lisa van der Werff
Defusing Digital Disruption Through Creative Accumulation: Technology-Induced Innovation in Professional Service Firms by Frida Pemer and Andreas Werr
How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work by James Faulconbridge, Atif Sarwar, Martin Spring
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing by Matthew I. Beane and Paul M. Leonardi
Relational Expertise: What Machines Can’t Know by Pauli Pakarinen and Ruthanne Huising
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