Generative AI in High‑Pressure Work Contexts: Behavioral Mechanisms Shaping Managerial and Employee Decision‑Making

Call for Papers – Generative AI in High‑Pressure Work Contexts: Behavioral Mechanisms Shaping Managerial and Employee Decision‑Making

Journal: Journal of Business Research
Publisher: Elsevier
Submission deadline: 31 December 2026

This special issue examines how generative AI (GAI) reshapes managerial and employee decision‑making under high‑pressure, high‑stakes conditions, such as crisis management, medical triage, and strategic financial forecasting. It focuses on the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and ethical mechanisms that shape human–AI interaction when time is scarce, uncertainty is high, and errors are irreversible.

Types of research this SI invites

Guest editors (full information)

Dr Miles Yang, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Dr Ying (Candy) Lu, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Dr Yucheng Zhang, University of Southampton, UK

List of suggested topic areas

• Cognitive and emotional dynamics:

  • Intuition vs analytic reasoning, automation bias, and overreliance on GAI

  • Stress, anxiety, and cognitive overload in AI‑mediated high‑pressure tasks

• Decision styles, roles, and judgment:

  • Feedback, coaching, and conflict‑resolution practices when GAI is involved

  • How managers and employees delegate, collaborate with, or abdicate responsibility to GAI

• Ethics, agency, and accountability:

  • Moral reasoning and ethical trade‑offs in time‑sensitive dilemmas (medical triage, finance, crisis)

  • How GAI reshapes leadership authority, legitimacy, and accountability

• Strategy, time orientation, and risk:

  • Short‑term optimisation vs long‑term strategic thinking under AI‑driven pressure

  • GAI in scenario planning, contingency decisions, and innovation under time constraints

• Relational and organizational dynamics:

  • Trust, resistance, dependency, and power asymmetries in human–AI collaboration

  • How culture, industry, and organisational context shape openness to GAI in pressured environments

Submission information

Submission opens on 1 September 2026 and closes on 31 December 2026.
Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s Editorial Manager system:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/JOBR/default.aspx

Select article type “GenAI in High‑Pressure Work Contexts” and follow the Journal of Business Research Guide for Authors:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-business-research/publish/guide-for-authors

All submissions will undergo the journal’s standard double‑blind review process.

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