We examine the technology-organization interface in the context of artful organizing and art markets. These contexts demand that people creatively transform their cognitive, material, social resources in the face of increasingly competitive market forces. These dynamics unfold across the individual, team, organization, and levels. So art offers as a rich context as any other for examining the broader consequences of these generative technologies
Ayenda Kemp, PhD
President / Research Lead / Artist in ResidenceAyenda is an organizations researcher, and an artist, who’s passionate about merging art and business. Ayenda is a native of the Bahamas, and has deep experience as an artist, having served on the production teams for several independent record labels in the greater Orlando area. He currently expresses his imagination through collaborative DJ sets, and through the live co-creation of hip-hop and house instrumentals with groups of self-organized participants.
Ayenda holds a doctorate in International Business from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he researched the economic and creative consequences of social networks for individuals and collectives. He also holds a M.S. in Statistical Computing, and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Central Florida.
He also studies novel business models for structuring generative and collaborative creative work. His interested lies primarily in accomplishing this using new technologies such as generative AI and, and old technologies such as dancing. His work appears or is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Review and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. (Curriculum Vitae).
Prior to serving as the president of Eola Art Incubator, Ayenda served as tenure-track faculty member at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin School of Business, where he taught strategic management and analytics. Ayenda is currently without a university home.