Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Challenges for Sustainable Management

by René Schmidpeter (Editor), Reinhard Altenburger (editor)

Artificial intelligence - and social responsibility. Two topics that are at the top of the business agenda. 

This book discusses in theory and practice how both topics influence each other. In addition to impulses from the current often controversial scientific discussion, it presents case studies from companies dealing with the specific challenges of artificial intelligence.

Particular emphasis is placed on the opportunities that artificial intelligence (AI) offers for companies from different industries. The book shows how dealing with the tension between AI and challenges caused by new corporate social responsibility creates strategic opportunities and also innovation opportunities. It highlights the active involvement of stakeholders in the design process, which is meant to build trust among customers and the public and thus contributes to the innovation and acceptance of artificial intelligence.

The book is aimed at researchers and practitioners in the fields of corporate social responsibility as well as artificial intelligence and digitalization. 



The chapter "Exploring AI with purpose" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

521 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2023

About the author

Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter holds the Dr. Juergen Meyer Endowed Chair for International Business Ethics and CSR at Cologne Business School (CBS). He is a guest professor at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in China and the academic head of the “Zentrum für humane Marktwirtschaft” (Centre for Humane Market Economy) in Salzburg, Austria. For more than 15 years, he has worked and done research in the field of corporate social responsibility. He edited several publications on CSR for Springer, for example CSR in Europe (2015), Sustainable Entrepreneurship (2014), Social Innovation (2013) and Corporate Social Responsibility (2012/2015). Rene Schmidpeter is also Section Editor of the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility and Editor of the intenational book series "CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance" as well as the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility (JCSR) at Springer.