DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND ETHICAL STEWARDSHIP IN THE AGE OF AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING
DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND ETHICAL STEWARDSHIP IN THE AGE OF AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING

Summary/Abstract: Autonomous systems and artificial intelligence (AI) have changed the business model as know it by making decisions on behalf of the organization, making the business efficient, productive and responsive to the business strategy. The subsequent rise in the usage of autonomous technologies, however, introduced some ethical considerations in terms of transparency, accountability, biasness in the algorithms, privacy and control. The article has come up with a new theoretical framework which it has named the Dynamic Ethical Capability Framework (DECF) which combines the ideas of the dynamic capability's theory and the theory of ethical stewardship to assist in responsible AI-based decision making in firms. A quantitative research design, The Responsible AI Measures Dataset, is a resultant outcome that consists of more than 12,000 measures of ethical AI evaluation on equity, governance, explainability, responsibility and regulatory compliance. The validation of model and the relationship between the variables of study were done with the help of statistical and structural modeling packages such as SPSS. The results indicate that there is a strong positive relationship between ethical governance and organizational sustainability because the mean scores of three factors, ethical stewardship, adaptive governance capability, and sustainable organizational performance, are 4.42, 4.35, and 4.30, respectively. The results indicate that organizations with dynamic capabilities that are accompanied by ethical stewardship are able to significantly enhance autonomous decision quality, stakeholder trust, and long-term organizational resilience. The proposed framework plays its part in responsible AI governance by offering strategic guidance for responsible AI in autonomous organizational settings.

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