On July 8-9th, 2024, Journal of Management Analytics (JMA), founded by Antai College of Economics and Management（Antai）, held the Special Issue Symposium on Generative AI and Management Science at International Institute for Management Development (IMD). Onsite attendees include Professor Fengyan Cai (former Vice Dean of Antai), Professor Yuan Li (Editors-in-Chief of JMA), Professor Guohua Wan (Executive Editor), Professor Pengzhu Zhang (Associate Editor), Professor Yi Liu (Editorial Board member), Doctor Xi Xi (JMA Author), Minyan Huang and Yunzhou Xu (JMA Editorial Office). Online attendees include Professor Wei Jiang (Associate Editor), Professor Detmar Straub (Editorial Advisory Board, USA), selected JMA authors and scholars from related fields.

In the background of continuous integration of generative AI into organizational processes and decision-making, JMA organized a special issue on the impact of generative AI on management, aiming to bring together scholars to explore the impact, implications and potentials of generative AI on management science research. Dr. Detmar Straub, Professor of Temple University and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of JMA, delivered a keynote speech titled How Rosy is the Future for Research on AI/GenAI. While Professor Straub expressed optimism about the prospects of AI and GenAI research, he also highlighted the prevalent misunderstandings and risks in this field, and proposed three feasible research directions: Transactional studies, Transformative studies, and Presciented studies.

The Symposium also invited three papers submitted to the special issue for presentations, including How do large language models bring disruptive change to time series forecasting? A survey and framework (presenter: Dr. Xi Xi, Renmin University of China), Does Generative Artificial Intelligence Improve the Production Efficiency of Enterprises? - Evidence from China (presenter: Lu Wenyu, Beijing Forestry University), and Identifying complaints with informed machine learning - Combining smoke words and GPT-2 embedding in a multi-task framework (presenter: Fang Zhidong, Guangdong University of Technology). The JMA editorial board members commented on the presentations and offered suggestions for future research path.

During the Symposium, Louis Leclézio, Member of Executive Committee and Chief Digital and Customer Experience Officer of IMD, guided the JMA delegation on a campus tour. The JMA team appreciated IMD's advanced facilities and organizational value. Professor Guohua Wan introduced the recent achievements of JMA. Louis fully recognized JMA as a high-quality SSCI journal that contributes to the academic and general society, and recommended IMD scholars with shared interests as potential collaborators for JMA. The meeting created an excellent opportunity for expanding academic cooperation between the two institutions in the future.

Journal of Management Analytics Editorial Office

Minyan Huang / Yunzhou Xu