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Evidence (35258 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 1820 479 278 1820 4588
Organizational Efficiency 2711 616 401 173 3922
Governance & Regulation 2075 886 459 246 3714
Technology Adoption Rate 1467 530 258 206 2488
Decision Quality 1281 496 289 152 2228
Output Quality 1227 447 207 138 2025
AI Safety & Ethics 634 754 207 83 1688
Research Productivity 826 241 114 422 1624
Firm Productivity 1052 154 163 66 1441
Task Allocation 685 211 331 99 1335
Market Structure 433 423 242 46 1150
Innovation Output 639 91 105 34 871
Task Completion Time 476 113 43 36 672
Firm Revenue 445 126 58 25 656
Skill Acquisition 364 119 109 34 626
Consumer Welfare 288 167 104 31 592
Employment Level 214 140 174 50 582
Error Rate 230 251 35 16 535
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 268 136 71 50 532
Inequality Measures 100 307 96 12 515
Worker Satisfaction 221 173 60 30 484
Automation Exposure 155 138 65 36 398
Regulatory Compliance 171 120 30 13 335
Developer Productivity 222 58 27 13 321
Team Performance 188 56 50 24 320
Wages & Compensation 146 104 46 16 312
Training Effectiveness 207 41 21 26 298
Job Displacement 23 153 52 4 232
Hiring & Recruitment 102 57 30 11 202
Skill Obsolescence 16 102 24 6 148
Creative Output 71 42 23 6 143
Social Protection 57 30 11 3 101
Labor Share of Income 29 42 24 2 97
Worker Turnover 43 29 6 4 82
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Science has a positive local effect on co-located digital and artistic activity while exerting a negative regional backwash effect that draws creative capacity away from neighbouring districts.
Spatial Durbin model estimating within-district and between-district effects for digital technology, science, and arts segments.
high mixed Below critical mass: Marshallian constraints, Jacobian syner... Digital and artistic specialization within districts and in neighbouring distric...
Creative agglomeration in Slovakia is conditional on reaching segment-specific density thresholds and is shaped by asymmetric cross-district spillovers and industrial legacy.
District-level analysis using segment-specific location quotients, population density, manufacturing specialization, a spatial Durbin model, random-forest simulations, and breakpoint tests.
high mixed Below critical mass: Marshallian constraints, Jacobian syner... Segment-specific creative specialization and agglomeration
No single capability-sourcing route dominates under all conditions; the headline results depend on the corresponding model mechanisms.
Mechanism-knockout experiments that switch acquisition friction, absorption, open-weight cost reductions, and substitution on or off.
high mixed Crossing into AI: When Incumbents Build, Partner, Acquire, A... Dominance of sourcing routes across counterfactual conditions
Waiting is relatively safe for a firm whose existing product cannot be replaced by the emerging technology, but it causes substantial value loss for a firm whose product is directly substitutable by that technology.
Agent-based model with demand-side substitution eroding the legacy revenue of non-adapters according to product exposure; stated as Proposition P4.
high mixed Crossing into AI: When Incumbents Build, Partner, Acquire, A... Incumbent firm value after waiting
A one-time reduction in the cost of building generative-AI capability revives the build route primarily before the leading design has stabilized; after the dominant design is established, the effect is substantially weaker.
Agent-based model experiment varying the timing of an open-weight-style reduction in build costs relative to dominant-design formation; stated as Proposition P3.
high mixed Crossing into AI: When Incumbents Build, Partner, Acquire, A... Prevalence of the build route
The route by which incumbents enter generative AI depends on contractibility: firms tend to partner when the capability can be rented through an API and tend to absorb when the capability is too tacit to rent.
History-friendly agent-based simulation of incumbent sourcing choices across build, partner, acquire, absorb, and wait routes; stated as Proposition P1 and reported as a headline finding.
high mixed Crossing into AI: When Incumbents Build, Partner, Acquire, A... Dominant capability-sourcing route across firms
The paper distinguishes substantive peer competition from symbolic peer competition by measuring the former with peers’ real digital-transformation investments and the latter with peers’ disclosures or announcements.
Operationalization of the two peer-competition measures in the empirical analysis.
high mixed Impact of Substantial and Symbolic Peer Competition in Digit... Peer digital-transformation strategies and their relationship to focal-firm grow...
The effects of peer-driven digital transformation vary across industries and market structures.
Reported heterogeneity and supplementary analyses using industry and market-structure splits.
high mixed Impact of Substantial and Symbolic Peer Competition in Digit... The effect of peer digital-transformation strategies on firm growth.
Educational data should be treated as an economic asset with potential negative externalities, including privacy harms and surveillance, requiring data-governance and property-rights analysis.
Normative political-economy implication drawn from the essay's analysis of platformisation and datafication; this is a proposed analytical framework rather than an empirically estimated result.
high mixed Reading the Global and the Emerging Challenges Facing Compar... Economic value and social costs of educational data
The platformisation and datafication of education are reshaping educational markets, data governance, and pedagogical practices while introducing new power asymmetries based on surveillance and data monetization.
Conceptual analysis of EdTech and platform actors, drawing on existing scholarship and contemporary developments in technology and education.
high mixed Reading the Global and the Emerging Challenges Facing Compar... Market power, data governance, and organization of educational practices
Movement toward digital work is pathway-dependent rather than uniform across career transitions.
The study constructs consecutive same-person job transitions and calculates changes in job-title digitalization scores between source and destination jobs, summarizing these by occupational groups.
high mixed Measuring Digital Labour Market Transitions with a Digital S... Change in job-title digitalization across observed career transitions
Funding mandates, international collaboration, journal prestige, and disciplinary norms are associated with systematic differences in Creative Commons license selection.
The study models categorical CC-license choice using multinomial logistic regression and examines funding-policy strength, international collaboration, subject category, and journal impact-factor percentile among 122,085 open-access articles.
high mixed Determinants of researchers’ copyright licensing behavior in... Categorical Creative Commons license chosen at publication
Employee resistance to AI adoption is driven by fears of job displacement and skill obsolescence, and the paper argues that training programmes and transparent change management can help overcome this resistance.
Thematic synthesis and practical recommendations in the systematic literature review; the supplied text reports no employee survey sample or estimated intervention effect.
high mixed The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Adoption on Operationa... Employee resistance and acceptance of AI implementation
Data ownership and algorithmic control influence who receives economic rents from AI-driven value creation.
Qualitative case studies and literature synthesis focused on data rights, data dividends, ownership, and algorithmic governance.
high mixed Technological Polarization and Unequal Growth in the Era of ... Allocation of economic rents generated by AI
Automation causes employment disruption in some occupations, while the net employment effect varies by sector, skill composition, and institutional context.
Synthesis of empirical studies within the review, with heterogeneity reported across sectors, worker skill compositions, and institutional settings.
high mixed Technological Polarization and Unequal Growth in the Era of ... Employment disruption and net employment effects
Platform regulations such as transparency requirements, auditability, and algorithmic impact assessments can change the incentives and equilibrium outcomes associated with algorithmic design in news markets.
Theoretical policy implication; the article proposes evaluating such effects but does not estimate them.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Algorithmic design incentives and market equilibrium outcomes
High-quality journalism has public-good characteristics, while algorithmic amplification of low-quality content can generate negative externalities.
Normative and economic framing in the discussion of externalities and public goods; no welfare estimate or empirical comparison is provided.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Social welfare effects of journalism quality and content amplification
Algorithmic ranking and recommendation can allocate attention in ways that create distributional externalities for news producers and affect demand for different types of content.
Theoretical implication for platform economics and attention markets; the article does not quantify the externalities or estimate effects.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Attention allocation, audience demand, and distributional effects on news produc...
Accountability for public knowledge is distributed across journalists, platforms, and regulators rather than being assigned to a single actor.
Theoretical account of accountability within the contested epistemic space; no observed cases or measured accountability outcomes are reported.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Allocation of responsibility for information production and distribution
Editorial choices and algorithmic amplification jointly shape what audiences see, while editorial standards, algorithmic signals, and regulatory legitimacy jointly shape what audiences trust.
Conceptual decomposition of the framework into visibility and credibility mechanisms; not supported by an empirical sample.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Audience exposure and perceived credibility of news
The intersection of editorial, algorithmic, and regulatory logics forms a contested epistemic space in which visibility, credibility, and accountability are negotiated and may be stabilized or destabilized.
Theoretical framework identifying the intersection and its effects on public knowledge; no empirical validation is presented.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Visibility, credibility, and accountability in public information ecosystems
Journalism's epistemic authority emerges from the interaction of editorial, algorithmic, and regulatory logics rather than being produced solely within newsrooms.
Conceptual synthesis in the article's main finding; no empirical sample or causal test is reported.
high mixed Epistemic governance in journalism: Editorial, algorithmic, ... Formation and stability of journalism's epistemic authority
Visibility-enabled metrics such as typing activity, response times, and screen time may improve measurement precision while also encouraging gaming and performative labor that inflate measured productivity without corresponding improvements in output quality.
Conceptual implication for AI economics and productivity measurement; the paper does not report a causal test or quantify the gap between measured productivity and output quality.
high mixed The Digital Visibility‐Belonging Paradox: Digital Cohesion a... Measured productivity and substantive output quality
Digital visibility has dual and divergent effects: it can increase felt recognition and relational connection while also creating performative pressures that weaken authentic belonging.
Conceptual theorization grounded in relational cohesion theory and sociomaterial perspectives; supported by literature synthesis rather than primary empirical data.
high mixed The Digital Visibility‐Belonging Paradox: Digital Cohesion a... Authentic belonging and felt recognition
Twitter-derived signals and Google Trends signals provide complementary information for apparel demand forecasting; neither signal source uniformly dominates the other when used alone.
Pairwise head-to-head comparisons of signal sets, in which Twitter alone and Google Trends alone each won approximately 51%–57% of matchups.
high mixed Forecasting Fashion Sales With Social Media Signals: Insight... Relative forecasting performance of Twitter-only versus Google-Trends-only model...
Short-run disruption includes job churn and wage compression for affected groups, while long-run outcomes depend on reskilling, capital re-allocation, and institutions.
Asserted in the supplied example contribution; no longitudinal employment, wage, or reskilling evidence is provided.
high mixed Synergy Paradigm: Reimagining Innovation through Interdiscip... Job churn, wages, and longer-run labor-market adjustment
Regions with higher human capital and adoption capacity capture more productivity gains, while disadvantaged regions face stagnation.
Presented as a regional heterogeneity claim; no regional panel, productivity measure, or comparative estimate is supplied.
high mixed Synergy Paradigm: Reimagining Innovation through Interdiscip... Regional productivity gains and economic stagnation
AI substitutes for routine cognitive and manual tasks, shifting worker duties toward nonroutinized, interpersonal, and creative tasks.
Presented as a task-based displacement claim; no task-level dataset or estimates are supplied.
high mixed Synergy Paradigm: Reimagining Innovation through Interdiscip... Allocation of worker duties across routine, interpersonal, and creative tasks
Net employment effects are modest short-run losses, with potential long-run gains if complementary skill investment and policy support occur.
Asserted in the supplied example contribution; the text provides no employment panel, identification strategy results, or quantified estimates.
high mixed Synergy Paradigm: Reimagining Innovation through Interdiscip... Short-run and long-run employment levels
High-skill cognitive tasks and complementary occupations gain earnings, while routine tasks and low-skill occupations face displacement and wage pressure.
Asserted in the supplied example contribution; no occupational employment or wage data are presented.
high mixed Synergy Paradigm: Reimagining Innovation through Interdiscip... Earnings, displacement, and wage pressure by task type and occupational skill le...
AI-driven automation accelerates occupational task reallocation, raising productivity but producing uneven wage effects.
Asserted in the supplied example contribution; no underlying paper, dataset, sample, or statistical analysis is provided.
high mixed Synergy Paradigm: Reimagining Innovation through Interdiscip... Productivity and wage effects associated with occupational task reallocation
AI-enabled recruitment is associated with a shift toward data-driven decision-making in which machine intelligence complements human expertise.
The paper's literature synthesis and qualitative examination of AI-powered recruitment practices, including chatbots, video interviews, targeted job advertisements, and predictive analytics.
high mixed AI-driven talent acquisition in Indian IT firms: A qualitati... Allocation of recruitment decision-making between human expertise and AI-based s...
The study advocates balancing automation gains with ethical safeguards and human oversight in AI-driven talent acquisition.
Qualitative exploration of AI-enabled recruitment experiences, including participants' concerns about privacy, organisational readiness, and ethical governance.
high mixed AI-driven talent acquisition in Indian IT firms: A qualitati... Governance requirements and human oversight for AI-assisted recruitment decision...
Organisational changes associated with AI adoption differ across phases of digital HR maturity.
The study interprets interview themes using Dave Ulrich's digital HR progression framework, comprising efficiency, innovation, information, and connection phases.
high mixed AI-driven talent acquisition in Indian IT firms: A qualitati... Variation in organisational transformation and role changes across digital HR ma...
The strength of psychological barriers to enterprise AI adoption differs by enterprise size, industry type, and employees' prior AI experience.
Multi-group comparison analyses examined heterogeneity across enterprise and employee subgroups in a three-enterprise survey.
high mixed From Aspiration to Reality: Understanding the Psychological ... Strength of psychological barriers to AI adoption
Ichnology is a useful testbed for formalizing inference because trace evidence is highly ambiguous: one organism can produce diverse traces, while similar traces can result from different organisms or abiotic processes.
Conceptual analysis of ambiguity in trace-based interpretation and comparison of biotic and abiotic explanations.
high mixed The epistemic architecture of palaeontological reasoning: tr... Reliability of tracemaker and process attribution
Realizing a required distinction may require revealing additional information, creating a tradeoff between privacy and the ability to make the required judgment.
Conceptual analysis of realization and informational repair; illustrated across institutional and automated decision contexts.
high mixed The Missing Distinction Privacy cost versus recoverability of required distinctions
For middle managers, AI has both positive and negative effects: it supports data analysis and managerial decision-making while creating concerns about automation of some managerial responsibilities.
Cross-study synthesis of findings differentiated by organizational level.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Its Influences on Enterprise Emp... Managerial decision support and concerns about managerial-task automation
Leadership effects in studies of AI adoption and productivity are endogenous to firm selection and internal processes, so causal studies should use instruments or quasi-experimental designs.
The paper's methodological implication concerning endogeneity and causal inference in AI adoption and productivity research.
high mixed Transformational Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelli... AI adoption and productivity effects attributable to leadership
Digital-era leadership research increasingly frames leadership as distributed and technologically mediated, with AI systems serving as decision aids, communication intermediaries, or partial substitutes for leader tasks.
Synthesis of emerging e-leadership and digital leadership literatures.
high mixed Transformational Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelli... Allocation and performance of leadership tasks in digitally mediated work system...
The effects of transformational leadership operate through cognitive and affective mediators and vary according to contextual moderators.
Review synthesis of meta-analytic findings concerning mediators and boundary conditions.
high mixed Transformational Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelli... Leadership-related employee attitudes and performance outcomes
The interaction of the AI Act and GDPR creates synergies in governance and accountability but can also compound compliance burdens, producing trade-offs between reduced harms and trust on one hand and efficiency and innovation on the other.
Synthesis of the doctrinal analysis and the paper's discussion of compliance costs, trust, innovation, and regulatory interaction; no quantitative trade-off estimate is provided.
high mixed Governing at a distance: The EU AI act and GDPR as twin pill... Compliance burden, trustworthiness, efficiency, and innovation incentives
The combined regulatory regimes may induce firms to relocate activities, partition product lines, or maintain dual compliance tracks, thereby affecting the location of data processing and AI development.
Analytical inference from the interaction of extraterritorial obligations, compliance costs, and regulatory differences; no firm-level relocation data are reported.
high mixed Governing at a distance: The EU AI act and GDPR as twin pill... Firm location choices and organization of AI development and data processing
EU rules may diffuse globally as de facto standards because firms adopt uniform EU-aligned practices to preserve market access, potentially reducing regulatory fragmentation while exporting EU norms.
Comparative legal analysis of extraterritoriality and market-access incentives, interpreted through the regulatory-governance and regulatory-capitalism literature.
high mixed Governing at a distance: The EU AI act and GDPR as twin pill... Global diffusion and harmonization of AI and data-governance standards
Governance-by-design may shift innovation toward safer and more auditable systems, while potentially slowing time-to-market.
Theoretical and interpretive analysis of how embedded compliance requirements may affect product design and innovation incentives; no quantitative innovation or time-to-market estimate is provided.
high mixed Governing at a distance: The EU AI act and GDPR as twin pill... AI product design, system auditability, and time-to-market
Sales experts showed only partial agreement with the features identified by the model as important: some features with strong predictive power were regarded by experts as unintuitive or unimportant.
Five sales experts reviewed SHAP explanations for four correctly classified regional sales cases through a structured questionnaire, including ratings of feature importance and agreement with explanations.
high mixed Predicting sales offer success of industrial configure-to-or... Expert agreement with model-identified feature importance and explanations
Incorporating constitutive dynamics into matching theory implies that worker preferences and suitability may be endogenous and shaped by organizational experience rather than fully stable and observable in advance.
Theoretical implication for labor-market matching and market-design models; no equilibrium model or empirical estimate is presented.
high mixed The two ontologies of person–organization fit. Endogeneity of preferences and suitability in labor-market matching
Correspondence-based fit research is most compatible with surveys, alignment metrics, dyadic or market-matching measures, and causal estimation, while constitutive-fit research is more compatible with qualitative methods, longitudinal process tracing, and analysis of interpretation and affect.
Methodological implications derived from the distinct epistemological assumptions of the two ontologies.
high mixed The two ontologies of person–organization fit. Methodological fit between research design and ontology
The two ontologies imply different process explanations for organizational outcomes: correspondence models emphasize trait alignment leading to outcomes such as satisfaction and retention, whereas constitutive models emphasize interpretive work leading to meaningfulness and adjustment.
The article develops separate processual explanations for each ontology; the claim is conceptual rather than an estimate from observed data.
high mixed The two ontologies of person–organization fit. Satisfaction, retention, meaningfulness, and adjustment
Person–organization fit research rests on two distinct ontologies: a correspondence ontology that treats fit as alignment between person and organization attributes, and a constitutive ontology that treats fit as an enacted and interpretive accomplishment.
Conceptual and theoretical synthesis distinguishing two underlying ontologies; no new empirical data are reported.
high mixed The two ontologies of person–organization fit. Conceptualization of person–organization fit