Leap Trends · Structure · Mandate and ownership
Theme
Mandate and ownership
The publications focus mainly on who is responsible when AI agents act on their own, how much authority organisations give agents and what new roles are emerging as a result.
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What the publications show
Two academic articles argue that an agent has influence without being able to bear responsibility. Kozminski University calls the agent a participant outside the moral order; Paris Nanterre links governance requirements to the degree of delegated autonomy.
Kozminski University, 2026 (opens in a new window) · Université Paris Nanterre, 2026 (opens in a new window)
UniNettuno sees most organisations as ready to give agents bounded, reversible tasks under supervision, but not yet to delegate broad authority in high-risk work. Paris Nanterre divides that authority into three levels.
UniNettuno University, 2026 (opens in a new window) · Université Paris Nanterre, 2026 (opens in a new window)
New roles are emerging to oversee agents. According to Capgemini, banks and insurers are planning positions to monitor the AI, and Harvard Business Review argues for a dedicated agent manager role.
Capgemini Research Institute, 2025 (opens in a new window) · Harvard Business Review, 2026 (opens in a new window)
Topics within mandate and ownership
This list shows what the publications on this theme are about, with the number for each topic. Open a topic to see its publications; if a topic has a briefing, the link is underneath.
- Briefing: Who is the agent's boss? Ownership, mandate and control of AI agents →
Delegation to agents2 publications
- Are Organisations Ready to Hand Over the Keys to Agentic AI? · UniNettuno University, 2026
- Delegated Agentic Governance: A Delegation-Centred Framework for Managing Autonomous AI in Organisations · Université Paris Nanterre, 2026
Responsibility2 publications
- When Agentic AI Participates in Organizational Change: Rethinking Agency, Leadership, and Accountability · Kozminski University, 2026
- Delegated Agentic Governance: A Delegation-Centred Framework for Managing Autonomous AI in Organisations · Université Paris Nanterre, 2026
Oversight roles2 publications
- To Thrive in the AI Era, Companies Need Agent Managers · Harvard Business Review, 2026
- Banks and insurers deploy AI agents to fight fraud and process applications, with plans for new roles to supervise the AI (World Cloud Report in Financial Services 2026) · Capgemini Research Institute, 2025
Briefings on other themes that touch on this one
These briefings belong to another theme but also cover mandate and ownership.
Who is the agent's boss? Ownership, mandate and control of AI agents
- Governance of AI agents
- Mandate and ownership
- Agent autonomy
In more and more organisations AI agents carry out real steps in the work and will gain more autonomy in the coming years, while almost nobody has set up the governance: who owns the agent, what it may do without a check, who switches it off. That is a structural question for line management, not an IT question.
| Month | Publications |
|---|---|
| December 2025 | 0 |
| January 2026 | 0 |
| February 2026 | 1 |
| March 2026 | 1 |
| April 2026 | 1 |
| May 2026 | 0 |
| June 2026 | 0 |
| July 2026 | 3 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 1 |
| October 2026 | 2 |
| November 2026 | 0 |
updated · 10 publications
All publications on mandate and ownership
This list shows every publication on this theme, including those not (yet) part of a briefing. Choose a period; a title opens the publication at its source.
- Moving the needle: overcoming systemic inertia to foster collective sustainability agency in organizations (opens the publication in a new window)Organisation designMandate and ownership
- Are Organisations Ready to Hand Over the Keys to Agentic AI? (opens the publication in a new window)Mandate and ownershipGovernanceBriefing: Who is the agent's boss? Ownership, mandate and control of AI agents
- Delegated Agentic Governance: A Delegation-Centred Framework for Managing Autonomous AI in Organisations (opens the publication in a new window)Mandate and ownershipGovernanceBriefing: Who is the agent's boss? Ownership, mandate and control of AI agents
- When Agentic AI Participates in Organizational Change: Rethinking Agency, Leadership, and Accountability (opens the publication in a new window)Mandate and ownershipBriefing: Who is the agent's boss? Ownership, mandate and control of AI agents
- To Thrive in the AI Era, Companies Need Agent Managers (opens the publication in a new window)Mandate and ownershipBriefing: Who is the agent's boss? Ownership, mandate and control of AI agents
- Banks and insurers deploy AI agents to fight fraud and process applications, with plans for new roles to supervise the AI (World Cloud Report in Financial Services 2026) (opens the publication in a new window)Mandate and ownershipWork designBriefing: Who is the agent's boss? Ownership, mandate and control of AI agentsBriefing: Restructuring at Dutch banks and AI in anti-money laundering and customer service
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