Assessing AI Readiness Across Organizations: The Case of UAE

several recent business case studies showed the benefits of adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in business, which encouraged many organizations to think seriously in adopting AI to re-innovate existing business processes or entire business models. Though, the challenge of having a clear framework to guide companies in such an AI transformation process is missing. This paper aims to investigate conceptual frameworks sued to assess AI readiness in organizations using popular existing theories and frameworks from the Information Systems (IS) discipline such as Technology-Organizations-Environment (TOE) framework, Diffusion of Innovation theory (DOI), and socio-technical Design. Followed by a review of the current theories in depth and propose an extended framework that will consider the socio-technical elements based on the local context of the UAE. A mixed methods research approach is proposed to test and validate the framework and answer the research questions. The expected results from applying the proposed framework will help academics and practitioners to identify the critical factors needed to have a successful implementation of AI strategies in the UAE.