W7203534065 Working papers AI × management and organizations

From AI-Assisted Firms to Agentic Firms: A Theory of Organizational Creative Destruction in the Age of Autonomous Intelligence

Zhang Sulin

Also recorded as: doi:10.2139/ssrn.7267998 · ssrn:7267998

ssrn abstract page · 2026-08-15

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Per the abstract, the theorized AI-native firm deploys a scalable AI-agent population spanning business functions; coordination may rest with one human principal, with a small team of humans, or potentially with no human in a direct operating role.

confidence: high ssrn-abstract-page apw-e1-ssrn-backfill

Scope: abstract-level organizational theory

The paper distinguishes task automation inside incumbent firms from inter-firm displacement by AI-native entrants and develops a formal model with implications for adoption, market share, concentration, labor demand, and organizational restructuring.

confidence: high ssrn-abstract-page apw-e1-ssrn-backfill

Scope: abstract-level theory and model description

At inspection time, the public Organizations & Markets: Formal & Informal Structures all-years search for artificial intelligence displayed this work among 50 postings.

confidence: high ssrn-ejournal-listing apw-e1-ssrn-backfill

Scope: universe: filtered O&M Formal & Informal Structures listing; unit: posting; period: all years through 2026-08-20; denominator: 50 displayed postings

The abstract models an AI-native firm as a human principal, small human team, or potentially no direct human operator coordinating scalable AI agents across business functions, and argues that inter-firm competition can produce organizational displacement distinct from task automation inside incumbents.

confidence: high ssrn-abstract-page apw-e1-ssrn-backfill

Scope: abstract-level firm theory and industrial-organization contribution

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  • O&M membership is evidenced by the retained public Formal & Informal Structures listing result. Its result URL is session-contextual and omits the journal_id; the retained bytes display the exact family label, query, and 50-posting denominator.
  • The abstract page states a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
  • Abstract-level evidence only; the differentiated-product, replicator-dynamics, and endogenous-adoption model was not inspected.
  • The abstract establishes modeled conditions and explicitly does not predict inevitable mass unemployment; this record does not infer realized labor-market effects.
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