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Evidence (1441 claims)

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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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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...
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-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
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
The severity of economic losses from cybersecurity incidents depends on organizational exposure, technological preparedness, governance and risk management, detection and response speed, industry characteristics, and the regulatory environment.
Framework-based qualitative analysis identifying interacting moderators of incident-loss severity.
high mixed Understanding the Economic Impact of Cybersecurity Incidents... Severity of economic losses following cybersecurity incidents
Cost stickiness and total asset turnover operate as positive indirect channels linking digital transformation to profitability, partially offsetting a larger negative direct implementation effect in the short run.
Bootstrap parallel mediation analysis with 5,000 firm-clustered resamples and bias-corrected 95% confidence intervals; the paper states that the primary inferential specifications use one-year-lagged mediators.
high mixed How digital transformation shapes tourism firm profitability... Return on assets (ROA) through cost stickiness and total asset turnover
The review finds that technology investment alone is insufficient to generate enterprise value from big data platforms and cloud-based analytics.
Structured integrative review of 30 peer-reviewed and policy sources published from 2020 to 2025, using thematic coding across platform architecture, analytics capability, adoption, governance, innovation, and Vision 2030 alignment.
high mixed Big Data Platforms and Cloud-Based Analytics for Enterprise ... Enterprise value realization from digital transformation investments
The potential productivity benefits of AI vary with industrial composition, knowledge intensity, digital infrastructure, human capital, and broader AI readiness.
The paper cites BIS analysis covering 56 countries and 16 industries.
high mixed Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Growth and Social We... Potential productivity benefits of AI across countries and industries
The effect of DGCI on regional total-factor carbon efficiency varies according to regional innovation capacity and tertiary-sector development.
Heterogeneity tests in the city-level panel examine whether the DGCI–TFCE relationship differs across regional innovation-capacity and tertiary-sector-development contexts.
high mixed Unlocking regional total factor carbon efficiency through di... Variation in the magnitude of the DGCI effect on total-factor carbon efficiency ...
Comparative advantage in services trade is increasingly determined by AI-adjusted task productivity rather than nominal wage differences alone.
The paper's theoretical framework, which incorporates wages, AI-assisted productivity, supervision costs, service quality, models, data, computing power, and organizational integration.
high mixed Reconstructing Comparative Advantage in International Trade ... Relative unit costs and productivity across economies in cross-border service ta...
Standard productivity statistics may fail to capture gains from AI concentrated in safety, quality, downtime reduction, or tacit-process improvements.
The paper identifies measurement challenges as an implication of the qualitative findings; it does not present a statistical comparison of productivity measures.
high mixed Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Human–AI Collaborat... Measurement of AI-related production and process improvements
The productivity-protective effect of digitalization is primarily an ex-ante preparedness effect: contemporaneous digitalization does not significantly affect current agricultural total factor productivity, whereas digitalization lagged by two periods has a significant positive effect.
Temporal-structure analysis using the unbalanced panel of Chinese listed agricultural firms; the paper compares contemporaneous and two-period-lagged digitalization measures.
high mixed Climate risk and the productivity returns to agricultural di... Current agricultural total factor productivity
The effect of two-period lagged agricultural-firm digitalization on agricultural total factor productivity is nonlinear with respect to climate-risk intensity: below a climate-risk threshold of approximately 18.96, the marginal effect is negative, while above the threshold it becomes positive.
Unbalanced panel data of Chinese A-share listed agricultural firms from 2007 to 2023; firm-level digitalization was constructed from annual-report text analysis and matched to city-level climate physical risk data. The study estimates nonlinear marginal effects and identifies a threshold.
high mixed Climate risk and the productivity returns to agricultural di... Agricultural total factor productivity
AI deployment is at an early and uneven stage across leading publicly listed firms, with interest and investment outpacing realized benefits.
CIO interviews across leading international publicly listed companies and abductive analysis of differences in deployment outcomes.
high mixed From Trials to Results – A Novel Capability Framework for Co... Realized benefits from AI deployment relative to AI interest and investment
Responsible workplace data governance has a positive but less stable association with Tobin's Q than with ROA.
Tobin's Q was analyzed as a secondary outcome using alternative timing structures and panel specifications.
In warehouse settings, algorithmic routing can improve coordination and measurable throughput while reducing method autonomy and intensifying work pressure.
Review synthesis of warehouse and logistics studies, including Cheon and Erickson (2025).
high mixed The algorithmic management paradox: a structured integrative... Work throughput, method autonomy, and work pressure
Across 15 frontier models, mean final net worth ranged from $20,856 to $188,488, representing a 9.0-fold difference.
Evaluation of 15 frontier models in the Business Arena marketplace; final net worth was the primary terminal outcome.
high mixed Business Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents in a Realistic Marke... Mean final net worth at the end of a simulated business episode
AI applications enhance enterprise productivity primarily by upgrading human capital through increasing the proportion of highly educated employees while displacing low-skilled workers.
The review summarizes an analysis by Yu and Qi (2025) of 3,646 Chinese A-share companies.
high mixed ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN SME... Enterprise productivity and workforce skill composition
AI usage intensity alone does not guarantee performance improvement; complementary dynamic capabilities, data governance, and human capital are necessary for realizing performance gains.
The review reports findings from Rahmani et al. (2026) concerning AI usage intensity and organizational complements.
high mixed ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN SME... Firm performance improvement following AI use
The systematic review found that AI adoption outcomes in SMEs are contingent on complementary organizational capabilities, knowledge-management infrastructure, human-capital quality, and institutional context rather than technology deployment alone.
Systematic review of 29 peer-reviewed Scopus-indexed articles using PRISMA-guided screening, bibliometric mapping, and qualitative content analysis.
high mixed ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN SME... Firm performance outcomes associated with AI adoption
Data platforms are likely necessary but not sufficient for capturing AI rents; returns also depend on organizational complementarities such as skills, governance, and processes.
Conceptual synthesis of findings on platform affordances, organizational capabilities, and uneven enterprise AI outcomes.
high mixed Enterprise AI Transformation Through Modern Data Platforms Returns and value capture from enterprise AI investment
Evidence on the effects of modern data platforms on realized AI value is less consistent and less direct than evidence concerning analytics capability and organizational performance.
Comparative synthesis of reviewed studies and assessment of their empirical designs and outcome links.
high mixed Enterprise AI Transformation Through Modern Data Platforms Realized value from enterprise AI and data-platform investments
Across seven examined cases, the paper argues that the capital gate is decisive because strong engineering results do not ensure that a firm can meet the self-financing test.
Comparative case analysis of seven frontier-technology cases using audited filings, prospectuses, and official industry statistics.
high mixed A FOUR-GATE FRAMEWORK FOR SCREENING FRONTIER TECHNOLOGY COMM... Commercialization success and financial self-financing
A Chinese quantum-computing firm reported 2025 net profit of 5.39 million yuan after four consecutive loss years, but net profit after removing non-recurring items was negative 43.80 million yuan.
Decomposition of the firm's reported profit using its financial disclosures; the company attributed part of the improvement to government grants and investment income.
high mixed A FOUR-GATE FRAMEWORK FOR SCREENING FRONTIER TECHNOLOGY COMM... Reported versus adjusted net profit
Returns to AI investment are expected to be heterogeneous and path-dependent across institutions because they depend on organizational complementarities such as skills, leadership, and data architecture.
Implication derived from the capability-conversion framework; the paper distinguishes AI's technological affordances from the organizational HRA capability required to realize them.
The effect of digital-intelligent policy collaboration is strongest when green technological innovation exceeds a threshold and environmental regulation is of moderate intensity.
A staggered DID panel threshold model examining green innovation and environmental regulation as threshold or moderating conditions.
high mixed Digital and intelligent policy instrument portfolio and gree... Urban green transformation or green total factor productivity
The green co-empowerment effect of digital-intelligent policies varies with regional characteristics and is shaped by talent agglomeration and intellectual property protection.
Moderation and heterogeneity analyses conducted within the staggered DID framework.
high mixed Digital and intelligent policy instrument portfolio and gree... Green total factor productivity or urban green transformation
AI and generative AI may lower the costs of productization, personalization, and experimentation for digital ventures, but the gains depend on data access, human capital, and platform relationships.
Qualitative synthesis of literature on AI, generative AI, firm capabilities, data assets, human capital, and platform ecosystems; the paper identifies this as a research and economic implication rather than reporting a causal estimate.
high mixed Digital Entrepreneurship as a Driver Of Economic Transformat... Firm value creation and experimentation enabled by AI
AI investment is associated with higher firm sales, employment, market valuation, and product innovation, but AI-powered growth is concentrated among larger firms.
The paper summarizes firm-level evidence from Babina et al. (2024) and related organizational research.
high mixed A New Theory of Value for Post-AGI Economics Firm sales, employment, market valuation, product innovation, and concentration ...
The model represents organizational software output as Q(N,T) = A N^(α+β) T^β e^(−λT), where the exponential term captures cognitive friction from reviewing AI-generated output.
Theoretical production-function specification derived by substituting total token use with per-engineer token intensity; no empirical estimation is reported.
high mixed Joint Optimization of Human Headcount and Stochastic AI Reso... Organizational software output as a function of headcount and per-capita token i...
Raw proprietary data is a relatively weak competitive moat, whereas data embedded in a proprietary, continuously generated customer-feedback loop can be a stronger and more difficult-to-replicate complement.
Synthesis of competing theoretical and empirical arguments in the literature; the paper explicitly presents the raw-data versus feedback-loop distinction as its favored reconciliation.
high mixed When Everyone Has the Same AI: Rethinking Startup Competitiv... Durability of data-based competitive advantage
The AI capability-to-competitive-advantage pathway is expected to be strong when complementary resources are available and weak or absent when those resources are scarce.
The proposed moderated-mediation framework treats complementary resources as gating mechanisms on the prior capability-to-advantage pathway rather than merely as antecedents of AI capability.
high mixed When Does AI Capability Convert to Advantage? A Complementar... Competitive advantage conditional on complementary resources
Gemini 3.1 Pro achieves a higher win rate than Opus 4.6 but earns lower total profit because its margin per win is lower.
Comparison of leaderboard performance metrics for Gemini 3.1 Pro and Opus 4.6.
high mixed Can LLM Agents Price Competitively? A Dynamic Multi-Attribut... Win rate, margin per win, and total profit
AI-enabled process redesign could produce larger, non-marginal changes to task boundaries and work organization, increasing the potential for productivity gains while also increasing implementation risk and heterogeneity in realized returns across firms.
The paper's conceptual implications for firm behavior and productivity; not supported by a measured productivity effect or firm-level dataset.
high mixed Business Process Reengineering in the Age of Generative and ... Firm productivity and heterogeneity in returns from process redesign
The policy effect exhibits significant regional heterogeneity: it is most pronounced in the eastern region, followed by the western region, while the impact in the central and northeastern regions is not statistically significant.
Heterogeneity analysis by region reported in the paper using the 30-province panel (2012–2022); region-specific DID estimates compared across eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions.
high mixed How Does Artificial Intelligence Empower the Development of ... new-quality productivity (regional heterogeneity of policy impact)
A distinction must be made between the intensity of AI use and the maturity of AI use: while high intensity can facilitate short-term operational effects, sustainable differentiation typically emerges only at a high level of maturity (broad process integration, standardization, and scaling).
Argumentation grounded in literature review and conceptual reasoning; the paper cites empirical findings from various contexts but does not report a unified sample size.
high mixed More than a tool: How organizationally embedded AI competenc... short-term operational effects versus long-term sustainable differentiation from...
The effectiveness of data & AI investments is critically dependent on context-specific, cluster-specific management strategy.
Study findings showing intercluster differentiation and varying outputs of management models, interpreted to imply cluster-specific management strategies are critical (methodological details not provided in excerpt).
high mixed Improving the economic efficiency of data management and art... effectiveness of data & AI investments on managerial/financial performance
Analysis of the digital maturity level with financial and operational key performance indicators of airlines has identified a considerable intercluster differentiation.
Comparative analysis of airlines' digital maturity levels alongside financial and operational KPIs (paper reports cluster analysis / intercluster comparison). Sample size not stated in excerpt.
high mixed Improving the economic efficiency of data management and art... digital maturity level differentiation relative to financial and operational KPI...
Analysis of the digital maturity level with financial and operational key performance indicators of airlines has identified a considerable intercluster differentiation.
Comparative analysis of digital maturity levels and airlines' financial and operational KPIs reported in the paper (method details and sample size not provided in the excerpt).
high mixed Підвищення економічної ефективності управління даними та шту... digital maturity level and financial & operational KPIs (intercluster difference...
These Big Data and Machine Learning applications have economic implications for productivity, revenue management, and new business formation in tourism.
Argument and synthesis drawn from the reviewed literature linking technical applications to economic outcomes (literature-based inference; no single study or sample size cited in the abstract).
high mixed A survey on big data and machine learning in tourism and eco... effects on productivity, revenue management, and new business formation
Global survey evidence documents productivity gains alongside risks related to labor disruption, compute concentration, and uneven governance readiness.
Triangulation of case findings with secondary global survey evidence (surveys not specified in detail in the paper).
high mixed Steering the Singularity: How Venture Capital Shapes the Gov... productivity gains and risks including labor disruption, compute concentration, ...
Effects of AI adoption on profitability vary systematically across ownership types, bank sizes, and policy cycles.
Heterogeneity analyses in the DID framework applied to the 17-bank panel (2009–2022) evaluating differences by ownership (e.g., state vs non-state), size, and policy-cycle periods.
high mixed How Does Artificial Intelligence Reshape Bank Profitability ... bank profitability (heterogeneous effects by ownership, size, and policy cycles)
Data-driven culture plays a dual role: it enables AI value creation as a mediator but, beyond a certain threshold, it constrains dynamic reconfiguration by limiting managerial discretion and strategic flexibility (the 'dark side' of DDC).
Interpretation of empirical mediation and nonlinear moderation results from PLS-SEM on the 254-respondent survey; authors explicitly describe this dual/enabling-and-constraining role.
high mixed Reconfiguring Strategic Capabilities in the Digital Era: How... firm performance / dynamic reconfiguration
Organizational data-driven culture (DDC) moderates the AIDC–performance relationship in a nonlinear way: excessive reliance on data weakens the marginal performance benefits of AIDC (threshold/diminishing-returns effect).
Moderation analysis reported in the paper using PLS-SEM on the n=254 survey sample; authors describe a contingent nonlinear moderating role of DDC with a weakening effect beyond a threshold.
Technological asymmetries (differences in access to advanced digital tools, AI capabilities and IT infrastructure) shape the financial stability and market performance of enterprises of various sizes.
Comparative analysis of 100 industrial joint-stock companies from multiple countries using multivariate regression models and index-based financial metrics (MC, EV, P/E, PEG, P/S, P/B, EV/R, EV/EBITDA).
high mixed Technological Asymmetries and Financial Performance of Indus... financial stability and market performance
By reframing advantage as architecture-dependent, SME performance becomes ecosystem-conditioned in AI-driven markets.
Conceptual conclusion drawn from the integrated model; authors argue theoretically that SME outcomes depend on ecosystem architectures rather than solely firm-level resources (no empirical validation reported).
high mixed Data Extractivism and Strategic Value Appropriation: Rethink... SME performance dependence on ecosystem architectures
The strategic advantages of the AI boom are not ubiquitous – they depend on other forms of 'institutional legitimacy and social license.'
Conceptual conclusion / synthesis in the paper arguing that institutional legitimacy and social license condition the distribution of AI advantages. No empirical sample or effect estimates provided in the excerpt.
high mixed AI, Union Power and Competitive Advantage a New Paradigm for... distribution/realization of strategic advantages from AI
The value of artificial intelligence (AIs) depends not just on firm-level capabilities but more so on national labour institutional compatibility (resource–institutional compatibility framework).
Theoretical development of a resource–institutional compatibility framework presented in the paper (conceptual argument). No empirical sample or quantitative test reported in the excerpt.
high mixed AI, Union Power and Competitive Advantage a New Paradigm for... value of AI (AI value potential / effectiveness)
AI's effect on urban GTFE is heterogeneous across regions, city sizes, urban hierarchies, transportation-hub status, and old industrial base status.
Heterogeneity analysis conducted on the 2012–2021 panel of 279 Chinese cities comparing subgroups by region, city size, urban hierarchy, transportation hub/non-hub, and old industrial base/non-base.
high mixed A Study on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Urban Gr... urban green total factor efficiency (GTFE)
Productivity gains vary widely across scenarios and countries and are substantially larger in countries with higher incomes.
Heterogeneity analysis across the compiled scenarios and the 31-country sample; authors report cross-country and cross-scenario variation and an income gradient (higher-income countries see larger gains).
high mixed Artificial Intelligence and Productivity in Europe variation in projected TFP gains across scenarios and countries; correlation wit...