David De Cremer

About

David De Cremer serves as the Dunton Family Dean of Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. He is a behavioral scientist who examines the interplay between humans and smart technologies in business and society. De Cremer has held academic roles at prestigious institutions including the National University of Singapore Business School, where he was a provost chair and founder and director of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH). His previous positions include the KPMG-endowed professorship at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School, visiting fellowships at Stanford University and Harvard University, and a research member role at Yale Law School. He is also the founder of the Erasmus Center of Behavioral Business Ethics at Rotterdam School of Management. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Nature Human Behavior, and has been covered by international media including The Financial Times, Forbes, and The Economist. De Cremer is a best-selling author of books on leadership and AI, with his latest publication, 'The AI-savvy leader,' released by Harvard Business Review Press in June 2024. He has received numerous awards and honors, including fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science, recognition as the most influential behavioral economist in the Netherlands, and inclusion in the World's Top 2% of Scientists. He is a sought-after keynote…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Marketing
• Business
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Knowledge management
• Mathematics

Selected publications

• Establishing the importance of co-creation and self-efficacy in creative collaboration with artificial intelligence

  Scientific Reports · 2024-08-09 · 85 citations

  articleOpen access

  The emergence of generative AI technologies has led to an increasing number of people collaborating with AI to produce creative works. Across two experimental studies, in which we carefully designed and programmed state-of-the-art human-AI interfaces, we examine how the design of generative AI systems influences human creativity (poetry writing). First, we find that people were most creative when writing a poem on their own, compared to first receiving a poem generated by an AI system and using…

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• When Being Managed by Technology: Does Algorithmic Management Affect Perceptions of Workers’ Creative Capacities?

  Academy of Management Discoveries · 2023-11-16 · 25 citations

  articleSenior author

  Artificial intelligence is rapidly being integrated into human roles in the workplace. One example is algorithmic management, where employees are supervised in the execution of their tasks by algorithms. Unfortunately, we know little about how algorithmic management affects perceptions of the employees managed by these algorithms. In three experiments, we explore people’s beliefs about the creative capacities of employees managed by algorithms. Our first experiment finds that people in the role…

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• The reputational and ethical consequences of deceptive chatbot use

  Scientific Reports · 2023-09-27 · 19 citations

  articleOpen access

  The use of chatbots is becoming widespread as they offer significant economic opportunities. At the same time, however, customers seem to prefer interacting with human operators when making inquiries and as a result are not as cooperative with chatbots when their use is known. This specific situation creates an incentive for organizations to use chatbots without disclosing this to customers. Will this deceptive practice harm the reputation of the organization, and the employees who work for them…

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• AI Fairness in Action: A Human-Computer Perspective on AI Fairness in Organizations and Society

  International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction · 2023-10-25 · 9 citations

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• How Can Women Take Advantage of the High-Tech Era to be Perceived as Effective Leaders? Being Tech-Savvy Helps

  Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies · 2023-09-18 · 8 citations

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  Given the increasing use of intelligent technologies and the resulting requirement for leaders to be tech-savvy, an important question that emerges is whether perceptions of leadership effectiveness are changing too? Drawing from gender role theory and expectation violation theory, we propose and test a model of whether and how females can benefit from being tech-savvy. To explore whether women may stand to gain from the changing nature of the workforce or not, we ran a series of studies. Our da…

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Frequent coauthors

• Alain Van Hiel

  Ghent University

  47 shared

• Tessa Haesevoets

  Ghent University Hospital

  31 shared

• Marius van Dijke

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  21 shared

• Frank Van Overwalle

  Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  17 shared

• David M. Mayer

  Michigan United

  15 shared

• Daan van Knippenberg

  Rice University

  14 shared

• Jeroen Stouten

  KU Leuven

  13 shared

• Lieven Brebels

  KU Leuven

  12 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Management Science

  University of Cambridge

  1995

• M.S., Management Science

  University of Cambridge

  1993

• B.A., Economics

  University of Cambridge

  1991

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (2005)
• Most influential (behavioral) economist in the Netherlands (…
• Global Top Thought Leader by the Trust Across America in the…
• One of the World's top 30 Management Gurus and Speakers
• Listed thought leader on Thinkers50

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