My work is mostly theoretical embraces two fields: management research and philosophy (focus on action theory and phil of science).
In the field of management research, I am working mainly on organisation theory and organisational behaviour, with a special stress on reasoning, strategic theorizing, learning, applied AI, innovation, and routines. My approach to these topics remains within the bounded rationality paradigm.
I recently completed a research project: Intentionality of organizational routines sponsored by the National Science Centre Poland, (Grant No. 2018/29/B/HS4/01824). Articles produced in this agenda were published in general management and philosophy journals.
In the terrain of action theory, I draw inspirations from various fields – from the philosophy of science, philosophy of action (Kotarbiński, Davidson) through theories of rationality, and decision theory to cognitive and social psychology. Highlighted themes are: reasons, effectiveness, intentions/planning, automaticity, cooperation, resource-boundedness. I also have interest in modelling, especially in the emerging area of LLM-based simulations.
I still actively cooperate with philosophers. I recently contributed to the project “Semantic and epistemological aspects of ostension: from demonstrating procedures to exploitation of the context of utterance” (NCN Grant No. 2018/29/B/HS1/01868) directed by Tadeusz Ciecierski. My role in the project was to provide the action-theoretical support in developing some ideas related to demonstrations in language.
I have several projects in-progress. Advanced stage (2 round of reviews):
- Ren, S. & Makowski, P.T. “Hybrid collective intentionality: Why mindsets matter for human-AI collaboration”, Academy of Management Perspectives,