Szostak, M. (Ed.). (2026). Organizations, Humanism and AI: An Aesthetics Approach. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003662723 ABSTRACT This volume explores the role of the aesthetics of the synergy between humanism and artificial intelligence (AI) on the level of institutions and organisations, influencing individuals’ well-being. Grounded in the principles of the humanistic management paradigm—emphasising sustainability, social organisations and entrepreneurship, conscious capitalism, and the protection of human dignity—it investigates how aesthetic principles (harmony, transparency, emotional resonance, cultural adaptability, or depth insights), applied between a human-centric approach and the use of AI-powered solutions, may help shape public perceptions, foster trust, and affect the quality of institutions within politics, governance, media, and social services. An aesthetic perspective becomes crucial as AI’s influence expands, shaping governance mechanisms, media,

Szostak, M. (Ed.). (2026). Aesthetics of Human-AI Collaboration in Creative Activities: Art, Cultural Heritage, and Academic Research Practice. Brill | mentis. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783969753460 ABSTRACT The book explores the aesthetic insights into the transformative interplay between artificial intelligence and human creativity within art, cultural heritage, and academic research. It delves into how AI technologies reshape these areas, addressing both their potential to enhance creative processes and the challenges they present to traditional aesthetic frameworks of human creativity. Through a series of interdisciplinary chapters, the book examines applying AI-powered solutions in artistic endeavours, cultural heritage management, modern-day curation, and media content personalisation. It also explores how AI supports collaborative research and the modern translation profession, providing new aesthetic perspectives on beauty, truth, harmony,

Szostak, M. (Ed.). (2026). AI and Humanistic Management: Aesthetics in Managerial Theory and Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003654377 ABSTRACT This book, situated at the intersection of humanistic management, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence (AI) studies, aims to explore how the emergence of AI-driven solutions reshapes managerial paradigms, alters human experiences within organisations, and redefines the values guiding leadership, communication, and organisational development. By adopting a cross-disciplinary and multi-paradigmatic perspective, the volume seeks not only to identify the opportunities AI presents for enhancing human dignity and creativity at work but also to critically examine the risks of dehumanisation, aesthetic homogenisation, and ethical displacement. In the contemporary discourse on management theory and practice, the accelerated integration of AI technologies has initiated profound transformations that challenge

The article aims to define and describe potential areas of an aesthetic situation in which artificial intelligence may be applied in supporting or substituting roles. Analysing relations between artist, artwork, art recipient, the world of values, and the real world – based on the components of the aesthetic situation theory by Maria Gołaszewska in the Outline of Aesthetics (orig. Zarys estetyki, first published in 1984) and its development by applying the managerial lens by Michał Szostak in the Art of Management – Management of Art (orig. Sztuka zarządzania – zarządzanie sztuką, first published in 2023), allows to define particular universal areas of an aesthetic situation where artificial intelligence may be applied. The central methodological approach is a literature review on

On Monday, the 13th of October 2025, at 5.30 p,. I had a great pleasure to perform the first in this season Guest Organ Recital at beautiful Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford University, UK. I plaed works by Buxtehude, Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven, and improvisations in Italian Concerto form and concluding with a Symphonic Suite on British Themes. Official announcement – here. Recording of the whole recital – here.

Starting from 1 October 2025, my activities at Civitas University in Warsaw are expanded. In addition to the roles of Vice-Rector for Scientific Research and Head of the Institute for Management Research, I am now also assuming the role of Vice-Rector for International Affairs. I hope that combining these areas will bring satisfactory results and growth for all parties. Official info – here.

In August 2025, I visited Estonia to perform three organ recitals with Estonian soprano, Maria Veretenina. Click on below dates/information and you can listen to those organs: 2025/08/17 – ESTONIA – Viimsi, Püha Jaakobi Kirik 2025/08/21 – ESTONIA – Tallin, Kaarli Kirik 2025/08/22 – ESTONIA – Rapla, Maarja-Magdaleena Kirik

At the begining of August 2025, I spent almost two weeks on exploring organs of Central Sweden. Click on each organ to hear its sound and see some pictures.

Szostak, M. (2025). The aesthetical perspective of post-Schumpeterian innovations. In J. Chen & R. Lenart-Gansiniec (Eds.), Handbook on Post-Schumpeterian Innovations (pp. 148–165). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035322510.00017 According to Schumpeter, the process of technological change in a free market contains three components (Schumpeter, 1949): 1) invention (conceiving a new idea or process), 2) innovation (arranging the economic requirements for implementing an invention), and 3) diffusion (whereby people observing the discovery adopt or imitate it). While Schumpeterian innovations were centred around individual entrepreneurs driving radical technological changes and economic growth (Godin, 2008; Hagedoorn, 1996), post-Schumpeterian innovations represent a new era of more collaborative, interdisciplinary, global, and socially conscious innovation. They encompass a broader range of innovations, including those focussing on services, experiences,

In May and June 2025, I will visit eight venues in the US and Canada to perform recitals at: 2025/05/18 – USA – Grand Rapids MI, Fountain Street Church2025/05/22 – USA – Ogdensburg NY, St Mary’s Cathedral2025/05/25 – USA – New Bedford MA, Saint Anthony of Padua2025/05/27 – USA – Washington DC, The Church of the Epiphany2025/06/01 – USA – San Francisco CA, Trinity and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church2025/06/06 – USA – Reno NV, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral2025/06/08 – USA – Berkeley CA, St Mark’s Episcopal Church2025/06/10 – CANADA – Toronto ON, St James Cathedral (Anglican)