Title: Managerial self-actualisation in the era of business intelligence

Authors: John Thanopoulos; Nikolaos Papazoglou; Despoina S. Caminis

Addresses: IST College, Athens, Greece; University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece ' Department of Business Administration, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece ' Department of Business Administration, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

Abstract: The new technological evolution has influenced the global business with the use and application of business intelligence tools that provide information accuracy and conformity to managerial decisions, leading to organisational efficiency and corporate performance. In the global business environment, there is a need of social awareness for the improvement of the human well-being. Managers need to create a knowledge base with the purpose to understand the needs of the global society. This paper aims to present literature insights, from both philosophical and IT dimension, proposing initial research undertakings that should enhance our understanding of the new managerial self-actualisation era. Thus, it is argued that corporate performance is a well-balanced combination between technological trends and human values based on the self-actualisation continuous managerial decision process.

Keywords: business intelligence; self-actualisation; corporate performance global managers; decision-making; social intelligence; machine intelligence.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASS.2023.129070

International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2023 Vol.10 No.1, pp.70 - 82

Received: 13 Feb 2020
Accepted: 16 Jun 2021
Published online: 17 Feb 2023 *