Digital technologies and artificial intelligence are disrupting established institutional practices and creating significant ethical, regulatory, and policy challenges. Organizations and governments must navigate tensions between addressing risks associated with data privacy, algorithmic bias, and labor displacement while fostering innovation and competitiveness.
The regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving through frameworks like the EU AI Act and GDPR to embed ethical protections. However, digital technologies operate at a pace that traditional regulatory approaches struggle to match, leading to novel mechanisms where technology itself serves as a tool for implementing and monitoring compliance.
This special issue invites sociotechnical and information systems research examining how ethical concerns, regulatory requirements, and policy initiatives interact within organizational and institutional contexts. Studies should employ diverse methodologies to investigate governance practices, regulatory effectiveness, compliance mechanisms, and how emerging technologies address institutional challenges.
Alessandro Acquisti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander Benlian, Technical University of Darmstadt
Min Chen, George Mason University
Aaron Cheng, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Ioanna Constantiou, Copenhagen Business School
John Dong, Nanyang Technological University
Anna Essén, Stockholm School of Economics
Haiyang Feng, Tianjin University
Stefan Feuerriegel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Uri Gal, The University of Sydney
James Gaskin, Brigham Young University
Goh Khim Yong, National University of Singapore
Anand Gopal, Nanyang Technological University
Brad Greenwood, George Mason University
Dominik Gutt, RWTH Aachen University
Ola Henfridsson, University of Miami
Nina Huang, University of Miami
Jannis Kallinikos, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Gerald C Kane, University of Georgia
Wolf Ketter, University of Cologne
Cameron Kormylo, University of Notre Dame
Natalia Levina, New York University
Zhepeng Li, The University of Hong Kong
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
Min-Seok Pang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hani Safadi, University of Georgia
Nachiketa Sahoo, Boston University
Juliana Sutanto, Monash University
Mari-Klara Stein, TalTech
Lai Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yi Yang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lior Zalmanson, Tel Aviv University
Nan Zhang, University of Notre Dame
Xia Zhao, University of Georgia
Youngjin Yoo, London School of Economics and Political Science