AI adoption without awareness is just expensive optimism.
Research. Experience. Field notes.
Helping leaders adopt AI responsibly, before the system is installed, not after.
01AI Awareness & Adoption Readiness
What an organization actually understands about AI before it buys it, and the conditions that decide whether that adoption compounds.
Writings
02Power & Governance
Who decides, who's liable, and how authority gets reproduced at the top of the org chart and across the labor market.
View related research →03Institutional Pressure
Why organizations copy each other under uncertainty, and what that costs when the technology is moving faster than the institutions governing it.
View related research →04Firm Structure
Boundaries, geography, and the exploit-versus-explore tradeoff, how the shape of the firm constrains what it can do next.
View related research →05People at Work
Commitment, labor, and the human conditions that decide whether new technology lands or bounces.
View related research →01 — Latest research
The Innovation–Adoption Paradox
Why a nation's capacity to invent AI does not predict its capacity to deploy it.
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02 — Featured class reflections
Firm Boundaries and the Geography of Digital Work
A class reflection on whether digital coordination shrinks the firm — and whether it disperses or re-concentrates the multinational.
Read reflectionInstitutional Costs of AI for Small Retail
A reading brief on incomplete and captured AI institutions, language-culture, and why AI literacy becomes a survival strategy for small retailers.
Read reflection03 — Field notes
View all notes04 — Sources
All citations, in one place.
Every reference across the writings, deduplicated and grouped by theme.
05 — Podcast
Cohort in Progress
Taking you along the doctorate journey, AI comes up often, but the through-line is the cohort's work itself.
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