Arguments in development.
Authorial essays, conceptual arguments and analytical commentaries examining relational resources, organisational capabilities, coordination, governance and value creation under conditions of technological change.
A developing editorial program
Ideas under examination.
Insights is where emerging arguments, critical readings of research and longer authorial projects are made visible while their evidence, limitations and current status remain explicit.
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Two streams of inquiry.
Original arguments and critical engagement with existing research play different roles. Both are necessary for developing ideas with intellectual discipline.
Research read critically.
Structured readings of peer-reviewed research, scholarly books and selected institutional reports. Each brief considers the contribution of a source, the limits of its evidence and its relevance to relational thinking in organisations.
Enter Research IntelligenceIntellectual context
Relational thinking has a history.
Terms such as relational economy, relational economics, relational management and relational capabilities have already been used across economic geography, economic sociology, organisation studies, psychology, strategic alliances and management practice.
Examples include The Relational Economy by Bathelt and Glückler, Wieland's Relational Economics, research on relational capabilities and competitive advantage, and work using relational management in other contexts.
Guidelines does not claim to originate these traditions. It is developing Relational Management as an integrative perspective that asks how relational conditions activate, combine, govern, protect and renew resources and capabilities in organisations increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
Examine the research foundationsResearch Intelligence
Research becomes more useful when read with care.
Each brief begins with an identifiable source and asks what question it addresses, what kind of evidence or argument it provides, what it contributes, what it does not establish and why it may matter for the development of Relational Management.
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A developing program of work.
All titles below are working titles. They identify planned directions of inquiry, not completed studies, accepted publications, validated models or final conclusions.
Relational thinking and competitive advantage
Relational Economy and Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI: Toward a Conceptual Model
A conceptual examination of whether relational resources, capabilities and governance conditions may help explain differences in how organisations create value from increasingly accessible technologies.
Toward a Relational Logic of Organising in the AI-Enabled Economy
An inquiry into whether Relational Management can provide a useful organising logic for examining the limits of mechanistic, transactional and automation-first approaches without assuming that one model is appropriate in every context.
Connecting Relational Capital and Relational Capabilities: Trust, Cooperation and Knowledge Integration
A synthesis of existing research on relational capital and relational capabilities, focused on the mechanisms through which trust, cooperation, knowledge integration and governance may contribute to organisational action.
AI, trust, governance and relational risk
Human-AI Collaboration and Relational Value Creation: Organising Tasks, Judgment and Accountability
An inquiry into how tasks, knowledge, judgment, authority, review and accountability are distributed across human-AI work systems, and how these arrangements may influence learning and value creation.
Trust and Governance in AI-Enabled Transformation: A Relational Management Interpretation
An interpretation of trust, transparency, participation, verification, decision rights and accountability as interdependent conditions shaping AI-enabled organisational change.
Relational Erosion in AI-Enabled Organisations: Risks of Automation-First Design
An examination of circumstances in which efficiency gains may coexist with weaker agency, psychological safety, knowledge exchange, professional judgment or social connection.
Higher education, human capital and measurement
Relational Conditions of Competitive Advantage in AI-Enabled Higher Education
A conceptual study of how universities may combine technology, human capital, knowledge relationships, governance and institutional context when responding to digital transformation.
AI, Human Capital and the Relational Conditions of Learning in Management Education
An exploration of how AI may affect human capability development, participation, feedback, judgment and knowledge sharing in management education.
Defining Relational Readiness for AI-Enabled Transformation: Toward a Measurable Construct
A conceptual and methodological project aimed at defining relational readiness, identifying its possible dimensions and establishing appropriate boundary conditions before any measurement scale is proposed or validated.
Long-form work
Some questions require more space.
Alongside essays, Research Intelligence Briefs and working papers, the editorial program includes longer authorial and educational projects. Their titles, scope and final form remain subject to development.
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Long-form projects in preparation.
No confirmed publication date, publisher or final editorial format is assigned to these projects.
Relational Economy: A Utopian Dream or the Future of Economy?
A book-length authorial inquiry into whether a more relational understanding of economic and organisational life can respond credibly to technological, institutional and social change. The project will be positioned in relation to existing work on relational economy and relational economics while developing the distinct questions proposed within Relational Management.
Relational Management: Foundations, Questions and Applications
An educational text designed to introduce the intellectual foundations, central concepts, open questions and possible applications of Relational Management. Its final structure will evolve alongside the research program.
Silent Burnout
An independent book project concerned with forms of professional exhaustion that may remain unnoticed, unspoken or normalised. It sits outside the central Relational Management research program and will be developed as a separate line of authorial work.
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Clear labels are part of the method.
A developing body of work should show readers what kind of contribution they are encountering, what evidence it uses and what status it currently holds.
Original Insight
An authorial essay, conceptual argument or analytical commentary developed within Guidelines. It may propose an interpretation but does not present that interpretation as established evidence.
Research Intelligence Brief
A structured reading of an external research source that identifies its question, method or argumentative basis, contribution, limitations and relevance to Relational Management.
Working Paper
A substantial text in development that may change through further reading, conceptual refinement, research, discussion and review.
Reading Note
A concise observation arising from a book, article, report or research question that merits closer examination.
Long-form Project
A book, educational manuscript, handbook or other extended work in preparation.
Independent Authorial Project
A project developed by Monika Karolina Kosiedowska that does not form part of the central Relational Management research program.
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Inquiry before certainty.
The distinction between evidence, interpretation, proposition and future research is not a formality. It is part of how intellectual work becomes more transparent and trustworthy.
Ideas should remain open to challenge.
Published texts will identify their sources and distinguish what existing literature supports from what Guidelines interprets, proposes or considers an open question.
Research Intelligence Briefs will describe the nature and limitations of the evidence they examine. Original Insights and Working Papers will clearly identify conceptual claims, assumptions and areas requiring further investigation.
References accompanying individual texts will follow APA 7 style wherever scholarly literature is used. Corrections, substantive revisions and changes in publication status should remain visible to readers.
Continue the inquiry
Read the ideas in context.
The Idea explains why a relational perspective may be needed now. The Framework introduces its concepts, mechanisms and boundaries. Research presents the evidence base, working propositions and questions that guide its further development.