AOM Presenter Symposium – Who Counts? Artificial Intelligence in Stakeholder Relations
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in organizational life, it raises a foundational stakeholder question: Who counts?
Please join us at AOM 2026 for a presenter symposium examining how AI is reshaping stakeholder identification, attention, representation, accountability, and organizational relationships. The symposium brings together four projects at the intersection of stakeholder theory and research on AI in organizations.
The symposium will feature:
Is AI a Stakeholder? Conditions for Stakeholder Identification
Skyler Clark-Hamel, R. Edward Freeman, and Robert A. Phillips
The Advent of Synthetic Stakeholders: How Non-Traditional Entities Gain Salience in Organizations
Jen Rhymer, Alex Murray, and David Sirmon
When Bots Compete with Humans: Stakeholder Attention in the Age of AI
Luis Hillebrand and Sebastian Raisch
Drawing a Managerial Blank: Enacting the Judgments of Opaque Algorithms
Vikram Bhargava and Jonathan Bundy
Together, the papers ask:
Can AI itself qualify as a stakeholder?
Can AI give voice and salience to nonhuman stakeholders such as ecosystems, animals, or future generations?
What happens when bots compete with humans for limited organizational attention?
How are managers affected when they must enact algorithmic decisions they cannot explain?
Following the presentations, Jonathan Bundy will offer reflections.
Tuesday, August 4
9:45-11:15am
Convention Center, 120A
Organized by Luis Hillebrand (U. Geneva) and Skyler Clark-Hamel (U. Virginia).
We hope you will join us for a discussion about agency, moral responsibility, stakeholder inclusion, and accountability in the age of AI.
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Skyler Clark-Hamel
Ph.D. Student
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Charlottesville, VA
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