BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260522T172455EDT-2891uULpIA@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260522T212455Z DESCRIPTION:Emma Wiles\n\nQuestrom School of Business - Boston University\n \nIT Exploration and IT Exploitation Across Contexts: A Meta-Analysis of I T Ambidexterity and Research Agenda\n\nDate: Friday\, May 15\, 2026\n Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm\n Location: Room 310 – Bronfman basement\n\n\nAbstract \n\nMotivated by the potential for large productivity gains from AI\, firm s are increasingly deploying agentic AI systems capable of independent act ion. Some firms have also begun formally integrating these agents into the ir organizational structures—assigning them designated roles and responsib ilities\, and in some cases explicitly referring to them as employees. Thi s creates new challenges for decisions like when to delegate and how to mo nitor work. In a survey of 1\,261 managers\, we find that 23% of managers already work in organizations where AI agents have been formally instituti onalized on organizational charts. In a randomized experiment we provide t hose managers with identical documents containing built-in errors\, where we vary whether the drafts are presented as produced by an AI tool\, an AI employee\, or a human employee. Average effects to error catching are sma ll. However\, in the subgroup of managers whose organizations already have ‘AI employees’\, presenting identical drafts as produced by an AI employe e (versus an AI tool) reduces managers’ monitoring intensity by 16%\, incr eases their reliance on additional review from others\, and shifts their p erceived accountability away from themselves and toward the AI system. The human employee condition shows that this is not simply a response to dele gation\, in fact\, managers do the most careful oversight when they’re tol d the work comes from their human employee. These results suggest that emb edding AI agents into formal organizational roles can reduce managerial ov ersight in AI-mediated work and should be understood as a governance decis ion rather than a mere labeling choice.\n DTSTART:20260515T143000Z DTEND:20260515T160000Z LOCATION:Room 310\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Information Systems Area Seminar: Emma Wiles URL:/desautels/channels/event/information-systems-area -seminar-emma-wiles-372900 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR