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The purpose of this paper is to define artificial intelligence (AI) and examine its history, positive and negative impacts, ethical and social implications and implementation within management education. This paper offers various suggestions for the use of AI, as well as context surrounding the current AI landscape.

The paper uses a narrative review (Sylvester et al., 2013).

This paper identifies several areas of AI innovation, including AI tutoring systems, feedback systems for student papers, utilization of AI for innovative lesson plans and the use of AI to predict potential student dropout from a course or institution. In addition, there are significant concerns regarding the lack of ethical guidelines with current AI.

Practical implications include the ability to immediately use certain AI tools to enhance lesson plans as well as enhance student work using AI as a tool.

This paper was originally created as a conference presentation and presented at the society for advancement of management (SAM) International Business Conference before being reworked to be submitted to the journal. All content in this paper is original in their creation.

This study examines network coopetition strategies to promote the spatial distribution of tourists and their importance for Destination Management Organisations (DMOs). Geotagged photos from the municipality of Porto, Portugal (n = 152,312) uploaded to the Flickr social network between 2010 and 2022 were utilised, and thematic maps were produced using geographic information systems (GISs). Residents and visitors were identified and separated, employing a heuristic approach with a five-day threshold between the first and last photo of each user. The findings indicate an uneven distribution of tourists within the destination, with a notable concentration of accommodation, attractions and visitors in the historic centre. The establishment of a coopetition network could contribute to the dispersion of activity.

This paper aims to understand if buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services, a digital type of credit that targets young consumers, acts as a protective or a risk factor for food insecurity among young consumers in Australia.

The study uses survey data from a representative sample of young consumers aged 18–24 from all internal states and territories in Australia. Propensity score matching is used to test two hypotheses: BNPL drives young consumers to food insecurity, and food insecurity leads young consumers to use BNPL.

There is evidence that BNPL use is driving young Australian consumers to experience food insecurity, but there is no evidence of food insecurity driving the use of BNPL services.

The evidence of BNPL driving young consumers to experience food insecurity calls for the adoption of practices and stronger regulation to ensure that young users from being overindebted.

Although the link with more traditional forms of credit (such as personal loans) and consumer wellbeing has been explored more broadly, this project is the first attempt to have causal evidence of the link between BNPL and food insecurity in a high-income country, to the best of the authors’ knowledge. This evidence helps to fill the gap about the protective or risky nature of this type of digital financial product, as experienced by young Australians.

Analyses of cultural landscapes need to combine natural and social-cultural components to promote discussions on landscape planning and heritage management. This qualitative research explores the integrated case study of ten municipalities in the “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato”, Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape. The research aims to raise awareness of its aesthetic-perceptive features, the importance of effective identification of visual impacts and to promote mitigation strategies/actions for updating the current Management Plan.

Two rounds of interviews and focus groups with mayors were performed in 2015 and 2020 to identify trends and drivers of change affecting the territories. Potential mitigation strategies and actions were voted on and selected in response to five critical themes that emerged from the survey, mainly related to real estate and its supplies.

The results suggest tools and policies in the fields of landscape architecture and landscape design that could benefit planning and management at different levels. They support the design of sustainable scenarios, improving mayors' understanding of the significance of cultural landscapes and promoting them as heritage managers. Furthermore, they intend to preserve the authenticity of the landscape by supporting its attributes for long-term conservation.

The research makes an original contribution on the visual implications of anthropogenic landscape transformations in ten municipalities constituting this serial property, six years after its UNESCO nomination (2014).

Project-based temporary organizations, as an efficient organizational form for the execution of complex and innovative tasks, encounter challenges in fostering the effectiveness of inter-organizational cooperation within their temporary, uncertain, and dynamic nature. Although change-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors are recognized for promoting organizational relationships and performance in changing contexts, research in temporary organizational settings remains sparse. This study diverges from the majority concentrating on change-oriented behaviors on intra-organizational leader-employee relations and behaviors, aiming to propose a dynamic adaptive capacity of organizational leaders and explore how leadership capabilities and organizational climate shape their change-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors at inter-organizational level.

Developing a person-organization fit model tailored for complex and dynamic organizational settings, using survey data from 225 leaders with project cooperative experience and structural equation modeling for empirical analysis.

This study reveals the direct positive influences of organizational leaders’ dynamic adaptive capacity on their changed-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors. And, change self-efficacy, as a mediating psychological trait, enhances the positive relation between dynamic adaptive capacity and changed-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors. The findings also highlight person-organization interactions, where organizational justice, acting as a situational and moderating factor, has a positive yet disruptive effect on the relationship between dynamic adaptive capacity, change self-efficacy, and changed-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors.

This research enriches the mechanisms linking dynamic managerial capability in organizational leadership to citizenship behaviors at the micro-level, providing valuable insights for the management and development of temporary cross-organizational cooperation.

Consumers often prefer sustainable goods and services but fail to follow through with purchases that reflect these espoused values. The green intention–outcome gap is studied in many contexts but has yet to inform deathcare decisions. Industry reports suggest that most Americans prefer sustainable deathcare options, yet unsustainable corpse dispositions dominate the market. The purpose of this paper is to understand how history informs this phenonea.

This study looks to the past – using historical narrative analysis of deathcare trends and influential intermediaries – to understand the future of sustainable deathcare and the prospective role that marketers can play in bridging the gap between decedents’ preferences and survivors’ purchase outcomes.

Historical ritualization, medicalization and commercialization have resulted in the monopolization of traditional deathcare services. Mortuary professionals remain unresponsive to consumer preferences for sustainable alternatives.

Socioeconomic shocks can allow humanity to reflect and transition from consumerism to sustainability. COVID-19 has led to greater awareness of self-mortality, and death has become less taboo. The slow market penetration of sustainable deathcare services suggests a lack of communication between a decedent and their survivors. Marketing scholars need to help marketing practitioners bridge the preference-outcome gap.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is amongst the first to examine how history informs the sustainable action–outcome gap for deathcare preferences in a post-COVID environment and the role that marketers can play in perpetuating change.