New European doctoral network will study AI in workplaces
The network of nine universities will educate 15 doctoral researchers in collaboration with organisations and partners outside academia. At Hanken, EMANAIRE is led by Associate Professor Emma Nordbäck and Professor Mikko Vesa, and the School will welcome two doctoral researchers. The project looks at how AI changes work in practice. It will examine management and governance, day-to-day tasks, communication inside organisations, and the development of skills and careers over time.
“The doctoral researchers will study a wide array of topics in relation to more and less agentic AI, including top-down governance, bottom-up workflow change, social dynamics, including shifting dynamics of teamwork, and temporal consequences for skills and careers”, says Nordbäck.
The research will follow organisations over time and compare cases across settings. The doctoral researchers will work across management, organisation studies, sociology of work, communication, information systems and ethics.
“Their training will combine shared courses with research visits and collaboration with partners in the public sector, industry and international organisations from across Europe. This allows the network access to real organisational settings and practical collaboration”, states Vesa.
The doctoral researchers will start their studies 1.1.2027. The first three years they will receive funding from Horizon Europe and the last year is funded by Hanken.
“This prestigious funding is the first of its kind at Hanken and offers a unique opportunity for doctoral researchers to not only receive full-time funding for their doctoral studies, but to get trained in a Europe wide cohort of experts”, Nordbäck summarises.
EMANAIRE is a consortium of Hanken, Technical University Munich, Stockholm School of Economics, Aarhus University, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, University of Ljubljana, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Zurich, and coordinated by BI Norwegian Business School. The project is funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks programme under Horizon Europe.
More information:
Emma Nordbäck
Associate Professor
emma.nordback@hanken.fi
Mikko Vesa
Professor
mikko.vesa@hanken.fi