About Phanish Puranam 

Prof. Puranam is a leading expert in organisation science. His research explores how algorithms can become active co-creators of organisational processes and what opportunities, and limitations this brings. He focuses on key themes such as:

• How organizations work, and how we can make them work better
• How algorithms are shaping organizations
• The links between strategy & organization
• The use of formal models and experiments to study organizations

Articles & Reports

Human-AI-Ensembles: When Can They Work?  Phanish Puranam, 2025 

Vicarious Learning Without Knowledge Differentials I Management Science 

Ambiguity can compensate for semantic difference in human-AI-communication - ScienceDirect

Aligorithm Supported Induction for Building Theor: How Can We Use Prediction Models to Theorize I Organization Science 

Searching for Structure: Formal Organization Design as a Guide to Newwork Evolution I Management Science

What's "New" About New Forms of Organizing? I Academy of Management Review 

Books

Re-Humanize: How to design human centric organizations in the age of algorithms (Penguin Random House, December 2024)

The microstructure of organizations (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Corporate Strategy: Tools for Analysis and Decision (with Bart Vanneste, Cambridge University Press, 2016)