Execution Boundaries in the Age of AI
Intelligent Action, Governance Responsibility, and Execution Control
Published · 2026
Beginning with enterprise management, organizational rules, role-based authority, and everyday decisions, this book examines how people should rearrange authorization, responsibility, constraints, and execution boundaries as AI increasingly participates in real business operations. It extends execution control from a purely technical concern into a question of organizational governance shared by people and machines.
The English online manuscript is provisional and remains replaceable as the edition is finalized.
Lin Wang, Mengting Wu, Yong Zhang, Jiang Deng · 2026
Summary
As AI moves from preparing information to participating in decisions and actions, familiar organizational arrangements no longer answer every question about who may decide, who remains accountable, and what must stop an action before it takes effect. Through recognizable business situations, this book explores how authority, responsibility, institutional rules, and technical controls can be arranged around a clear execution boundary. Its focus is not a promise of autonomous efficiency, but the practical governance work required when people and machines act within the same organization.
About This Book
This standalone book extends earlier work on execution engineering into the organizational and managerial questions raised by AI participation in real operations.
Key Topics
- AI participation in everyday business decisions
- Authorization, accountability, and role-based authority
- Organizational rules and technical constraints
- Human judgment and machine action
- Execution boundaries as an organizational governance mechanism