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Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies Vol EJBO Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies Vol. 24, No. 2 (2019) Electronic Journal of Business ejbo Ethics and Organization Studies Vol. 24, No. 2 1 http://ejbo.jyu.fi/ EJBO Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies Vol. 24, No. 2 (2019) In this issue: EJBO - Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies Manuscript Submission and Information for Authors Vol. 24, No. 2 (2019) Postal address: Editor in Chief: page 3 ISSN 1239-2685 University of Jyväskylä, Professor Tuomo Takala School of Business and University of Jyväskylä Publisher: Economics, Business and [email protected] Business and Organization Organization Ethics Tuomo Takala, Tommi Auvinen, Janne Tienari, Pasi Sajasalo, Suvi Ethics Network (BON) Network (BON), Assistant Editor: Heikkinen, Jean Helms Mills & Minna Kallinen-Kuisma P.O. Box 35, D.Sc (Econ.) Marjo Siltaoja Special issue: Implications of Digitalization on Publishing date: FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä 2019-30-11 FINLAND [email protected] Organizations and Leadership – Esports, Gamification and Beyond http://ejbo.jyu.fi/ Assistant Editor: page 4 D.Sc (Econ.) Suvi Heikkinen University of Jyväskylä [email protected] Adenekan Dedeke Editorial board A Risk-Based Approach for Mitigating Ethical Lapses pages 5- 9 Iiris Aaltio Rauno Huttunen Merja Lähdesmäki Professor Associate Professor Ph.D University of Jyväskylä University of Eastern Finland University of Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Finland Ruralia Institute Tomi J. Kallio Helsinki, Finland Anniina Kinnunen Johannes Brinkmann Ph.D, Professor Institutionalization of Strategy and Management Professor Turku School of Economics Anna-Maija Lämsä BI Norwegian School of Pori University Consortium Professor Accounting Change in a Cooperative Bank Management Pori, Finland University of Jyväskylä pages 10-19 Oslo, Norway Jyväskylä, Finland Tarja Ketola Zoe S. Dimitriades Ph.D, Adjunct Professor Ari Paloviita Dinesh Poudel Associate Professor University of Turku Ph.D., Senior Assistant University of Macedonia Turku, Finland University of Jyväskylä Making Sense or Betting on the Future? Thessaloniki, Greece Jyväskylä, Finland Identifying Antenarratives of AI projects in a Large Mari Kooskora Financial Organization John Dobson Ph.D, Associate Professor Raminta Pucetaite Professor Estonian Business Ph.D, Associate Professor pages 20-33 College of Business School Vilniaus Universitates California Polytechnic Tallinn, Estonia Vilnius, Lithuania State University Esa Mangeloja San Luis Opisbo, U.S.A. Venkat R. Krishnan Anna Putnova Economics of Esports Ph.D, Professor Dr., Ph.D., MBA Claes Gustafsson Great Lakes Institute of Brno University of Technology pages 34-42 Professor Management Brno, Czech Republic Royal Institute of Technology Chennai, India Stockholm, Sweden Jari Syrjälä Janina Kubka Ph.D, Docent Niilo Noponen Pauli Juuti Dr.Sc. University of Jyväskylä Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Management Professor Gdansk University of Jyväskylä, Finland Lappeenranta University of Technology pages 43-50 Technology Gdansk, Poland Outi Uusitalo Lappeenranta, Finland Professor Johanna Kujala University of Jyväskylä Kari Heimonen Ph.D, Acting Professor Jyväskylä, Finland Ville Malinen Professor University of Tampere Radalta Laajakaistalle? E-urheilun ja autourheilun välinen University of Jyväskylä Tampere, Finland Bert van de Ven suhde ja tulevaisuus F1:ssä Jyväskylä, Finland Ph.D (Phil), MBA Hanna Lehtimäki Tilburg University pages 51-61 Ph.D, Adjunct Professor Tilburg, The Netherlands University of Tampere Tampere, Finland EJBO is indexed in Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management and Global Digital Library on Ethics (GDLE) and in PsycINFO bibliographic database of the American Psychologcail Asoociation. EJBO is currently also listed in ”The International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers”. 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