Who Gets to Learn Judgment? An Anatomical Review of Generative AI, Phronesis, and the Organization of Managerial Decision Rights

K SC This paper offers an anatomical review of Nicolai J. Foss and Erik Lang's essay Generative AI, Phronesis, and the Organization of Judgment (2026), itself a theoretical intervention into Lindebaum, Balasubramanian, Ashraf and Haack's Academy of Management Review process model of managerial phronesis in the age of generative artificial intelligence. The review reconstructs the two texts as a single problem-space: how repeated reliance on generative models alters not only the quality of the next decision but the human and organisational capacity to make future decisions under uncertainty. Core tenets are isolated — phronesis as experientially grown moral-contextual know-how; the dual path of epistemic de-skilling and up-skilling; the non-identity of accountability, reflexivity and moral ends; and the firm as a nested hierarchy of original and derived judgment. These tenets are then placed against sixteen neighbouring models of judgment, wisdom, hierarchy and technological mediation. The argument is that Lindebaum et al. correctly shift evaluation from contemporaneous task performance to the dynamics of capacity formation, while Foss and Lang correctly relocate the mechanism from an abstract 'manager' to the organisational design of decision rights. Neither text, however, fully specifies the ontology of the common good inside the firm, nor an epistemology of how testimony from a non-experiencing system can enter phronetic deliberation without hollowing it. Also available on Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/134178862/download_file?s=portfolio