Dear Colleagues,

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force helping businesses across the globe to redefine their business activities. Integration of AI in businesses steering innovation, efficiency, and decision-making through a strategic approach. AI has unfolded business horizons including the finance domain. AI diffusion into business operations is not only increasing organizations’ ambidexterity but also its sustainability. AI-powered information is streamlining the operations of businesses and making them robust is unprecedented.

Artificial intelligence (AI) in Business and Finance is diverse and has a significant influence. AI technology offers new opportunities that can lead to significant transformations in businesses. The recent development in AI witnessed considerable investment in cloud computing, machine learning, deep learning, and neural network application. Machine-readable data across economic systems, storage, and computation capabilities support the development of AI in business and finance. With the advancement in data management practices, business organizations have started practicing IT-enabled technologies for decision-making.

The AI models provide the computational capacity and functional flexibility required to understand the complex high dimensional data. The business and finance have witnessed a remarkable adoption of AI techniques and technologies. Corporate organizations are investing significantly in AI technologies to enhance their efficacy and effectiveness. The business processing, supply chain management, operational efficiency, quality control, customer-facing services, stock market predictions, portfolio management, default risk, credit management, banking, and digital fintech services have witnessed remarkable progress in artificial intelligence.

AI is also crucial in optimizing the functionality of other technologies and driving the development of Industry 4.0. It fosters innovation, knowledge acquisition, and entrepreneurship. The application of AI in Business and Finance is positioned to completely transform several areas of corporate operations, including automation, cognitive technology, and data analysis.

To uncover various aspects of AI in business and finance, this section of the journal seeks submissions from researchers, practitioners, leaders, and scholars across the globe in the form of articles, cases, or review work.

Prof. Rajendra Sahu

Dr. Mita Mehta

Section Editors