IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/tjmaxx/v13y2026i2p217-263.html

Generative AI and management analytics: survey

Author

Listed:
  • Jinzhi Li
  • Liuliu Fu
  • Yun Wang

Abstract

Research on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has reached a critical point at which widespread organizational uptake is coinciding with a rapid reconfiguration of management analytics as both a technical capability and a managerial interface for decision-making. Yet the scholarly base remains fragmented across functions, levels of analysis, and model families, limiting cumulative theory building and providing insufficient guidance on which research fronts are central, which are emergent, and how they map onto organizational and societal trajectories. To address this gap, we conduct a combined bibliometric science-mapping and systematic review of GenAI-related management research indexed in Web of Science and IEEE Xplore from 2020 to 2026. We organize the literature into interconnected research streams spanning analytics-as-interface for decision support, knowledge and innovation work, human capital and skill transformation, operations and coordination, and governance and risk at the human-AI boundary. Using maturity-centrality diagnostics, the diagnostics suggest that augmentation-oriented streams are relatively mature and structurally central, whereas agentic GenAI constitutes a strategically salient but underdeveloped frontier with direct implications for responsibility allocation, control systems, and organizational design. The study delineates a distinct analytical territory linking GenAI to management analytics as a driver of forecastable organizational and societal change, and it advances an agenda that prioritizes testable mechanisms (data readiness, workflow redesign, and governance) and multi-level outcomes relevant to practitioners and policymakers.

Suggested Citation

  • Jinzhi Li & Liuliu Fu & Yun Wang, 2026. "Generative AI and management analytics: survey," Journal of Management Analytics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2), pages 217-263, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjmaxx:v:13:y:2026:i:2:p:217-263
    DOI: 10.1080/23270012.2026.2652312
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23270012.2026.2652312
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/23270012.2026.2652312?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:tjmaxx:v:13:y:2026:i:2:p:217-263. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/tjma .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.