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Evidence (4892 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 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
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Algorithmic accuracy alone does not determine value; legitimacy and uptake hinge on people's and process readiness.
Thematic conclusion drawn from interviews, Likert surveys, and document analysis across cases indicating non-technical factors strongly influence uptake despite algorithmic performance metrics. (Sample size not reported.)
high null result Overcoming Resistance to Change: Artificial Intelligence in ... value realised / uptake of AI systems
The long-term dynamic effects of AI on resilience remain unverified and require longer-term data.
Authors explicitly state the need for longer time-series data to validate long-term dynamics.
high null result The impact mechanism of artificial intelligence on the resil... long-term dynamic effects of AI on SCR
Enterprise-level indicators used in the study do not directly capture supply chain network structure and node dependencies.
Explicit limitation noted by the authors about measurement and scope.
high null result The impact mechanism of artificial intelligence on the resil... accuracy/completeness of supply chain network characterization
The study's sample is limited to listed manufacturing companies, so conclusions should be applied cautiously to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Explicit limitation stated by the authors in the paper.
high null result The impact mechanism of artificial intelligence on the resil... generalizability of findings to SMEs
Mediation and moderation models are leveraged to explore how AI enhances resilience via resource allocation optimization, productivity, and technological innovation, and how conditional factors (e.g., agility) affect these links.
Authors state they used mediation and moderation models on firm-level data to test mechanisms and conditional effects.
high null result The impact mechanism of artificial intelligence on the resil... supply chain resilience (SCR) and mediators/moderators (TFP, technological innov...
The study uses data on A-share listed manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2023 and applies a multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) model to assess AI's impact on SCR.
Methods description provided in the paper summary: sample timeframe and econometric approach explicitly stated.
high null result The impact mechanism of artificial intelligence on the resil... supply chain resilience (SCR) (target of analysis)
We contribute junior–senior accounts on their usage of agentic AI through a three-phase mixed-methods study: ACTA combined with a Delphi process with 5 seniors, an AI-assisted debugging task with 10 juniors, and blind reviews of junior prompt histories by 5 more seniors.
Authors' methodological description of the study design and participant counts as reported in the paper.
high null result From Junior to Senior: Allocating Agency and Navigating Prof... Study design / data collection approach (ACTA + Delphi; task experiment; blind r...
Technology-driven recruitment encompasses Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), AI-powered screening, video-based interviews, gamified assessments, and data analytics.
Conceptual description in the paper's introduction/background defining the scope of 'technology-driven recruitment'.
high null result A Study on the Effectiveness of Technology-Driven Recruitmen... definition / scope of recruitment technology
The study employed a mixed-methods research design combining a quantitative survey of 150 HR professionals and recruiters across manufacturing, IT, banking, and education sectors with qualitative case study analysis of four organizations in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Explicit methodological statement in the paper: quantitative survey (N=150) across specified sectors + qualitative case studies of 4 organizations in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
The study used a mixed-method approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analysis of multiple case studies involving AI applications such as computer vision, robotics, and predictive analytics.
Authors report study design as mixed-method (qualitative + quantitative) applied to multiple case studies examining AI applications (computer vision, robotics, predictive analytics). No numeric sample size reported in the summary.
high null result AI-Driven Construction Project Optimisation Using Predictive... study design / methodology (mixed-method case studies of AI applications)
Prior research often treats AI presence as binary, framing it either as a hidden tool or a visible teammate.
Literature-summary claim asserted by the authors (literature review / conceptual critique). No quantitative evidence reported in the abstract.
high null result Who Gets Credit? Operationalizing AI Disclosure as Epistemic... research framing of AI presence (binary hidden vs visible)
A total of 160 peer-reviewed articles met the inclusion criteria for the review.
Direct numerical summary reported in the abstract (number of articles meeting inclusion criteria).
high null result The implementation of artificial intelligence in organizatio... number_of_included_studies
This study conducted a systematic review of articles published in Web of Science and Scopus up to December 2025, following established methodological guidelines.
Explicit statement in abstract describing the study method (systematic review), data sources (Web of Science and Scopus), and time cutoff (December 2025).
high null result The implementation of artificial intelligence in organizatio... study_coverage / literature_search
We surveyed 860 Microsoft developers to understand where they want AI support, and where they want it to stay out.
Primary empirical method reported in the paper (survey) with sample size explicitly stated as 860 Microsoft developers.
high null result To Copilot and Beyond: 22 AI Systems Developers Want Built developer preferences for AI support / rejection
Developers spend roughly one-tenth of their workday writing code.
Statement reported in the paper (abstract). No sample-size or measurement method for this specific statistic provided in the abstract.
high null result To Copilot and Beyond: 22 AI Systems Developers Want Built fraction of workday spent writing code
We examine 12 tasks across two practical settings: an AI consultancy providing solutions to business problems and an AI software team developing software products.
Description of experimental design and sample reported in the paper (method section): 12 tasks, two practical settings.
high null result AI Organizations are More Effective but Less Aligned than In... experimental tasks and settings (methodological sample description)
The two case firms demonstrated contrasting approaches to implementing AI in recruitment.
Findings and case descriptions comparing the two firms' AI recruitment strategies and levels of implementation (n = 2 firms; interviews with 22 participants).
high null result The augmented recruiter: examining AI integration and decisi... implementation_approach_variation
The research contributes by shifting focus to under-researched non-Western workplace settings, particularly technologically advancing Middle Eastern economies like Qatar.
Paper's stated contribution and scope: focus on Qatari organisations and Middle Eastern context.
high null result The augmented recruiter: examining AI integration and decisi... geographic_research_focus
Four key themes emerged from the data: (1) process optimisation through AI integration, (2) subjectivity in AI-powered recruitment, (3) recruitment strategies in the age of AI, and (4) strategic investments in AI.
Findings: thematic analysis identified these four themes from interview data (n = 22) across the two case firms.
Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns and relationships within the interview data.
Methods: analysis section reporting use of thematic analysis framework.
Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with twenty-two participants across various organisational roles and hierarchical levels.
Methods: semi-structured interviews reported with total participants n = 22 across roles/levels.
The research investigated two prominent Qatari firms with contrasting AI recruitment implementation approaches.
Methods / case selection: two firms were selected and contrasted on their AI recruitment approaches (number of firms = 2).
The study employed an interpretivist philosophy and a case study design.
Methods section: explicitly states interpretivist philosophy and case study design.
Collaboration among content creators can be modeled as a multi-agent stochastic linear bandit problem with a transferable utility (TU) cooperative game formulation, where a coalition's value equals the negative sum of its members' cumulative regrets.
Methodological/modeling claim: the paper defines a multi-agent stochastic linear bandit and maps coalition value to negative sum of cumulative regrets as the TU game payoff function.
high null result Creator Incentives in Recommender Systems: A Cooperative Gam... coalition value defined as negative sum of members' cumulative regrets
All participants had access to the same AI tool; the experiment varied only the structure surrounding its use (behavioral vs cognitive scaffolding vs unstructured).
Experimental design description in the paper: common AI tool provided to all participants; randomization/assignment varied only the scaffolding around AI use.
high null result Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Be... experimental manipulation fidelity (same AI tool across conditions)
These results are observational and reflect a single-operator dataset without controlled comparison.
Author statement in the paper describing study limitations.
high null result Context Engineering: A Practitioner Methodology for Structur... study design and limitations
External environmental pressures did not show a significant role in the adoption process.
PLS-SEM results from the survey (n=110) reportedly found no significant effect of environmental/external pressures on AI adoption.
high null result Drivers of AI Adoption: The Role of Innovation Attributes, O... AI adoption (in relation to external/environmental pressure)
Data analysis involved Smart PLS-SEM, which facilitated reliability and validity assessment along with hypothesis evaluation.
Paper reports using SmartPLS for Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling to assess reliability, validity, and test hypotheses.
high null result Drivers of AI Adoption: The Role of Innovation Attributes, O... analytical method used
The investigation was guided by the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework combined with innovation characteristics from Diffusion of Innovation theory.
Paper states theoretical frameworks used to design variables and hypotheses: TOE plus DOI innovation characteristics.
high null result Drivers of AI Adoption: The Role of Innovation Attributes, O... theoretical framing / constructs selection
A total of 110 valid responses were collected through an organized online survey using purposive sampling.
Reported sample description in the paper: online survey, purposive sampling, resulting in 110 valid responses.
high null result Drivers of AI Adoption: The Role of Innovation Attributes, O... sample_size / data_collection
Exploratory innovation does not show a significant direct association with long-term competitive performance.
PLS-SEM results from the survey of 104 Portuguese B2B managers reporting a non-significant direct path from exploratory innovation to performance.
high null result Generative AI Adoption in B2B Firms: Ethical Governance, Inn... long-term competitive performance
We validate this principle through a controlled experiment on log format token economy across four conditions (human-readable, structured, compressed, and tool-assisted compressed).
Controlled experiment described in the paper comparing four log-format conditions (human-readable, structured, compressed, tool-assisted compressed); exact sample size not reported in the abstract.
high null result Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... performance on log-format token economy under different formatting conditions
For six decades, software engineering principles have been optimized for a single consumer: the human developer.
Historical/position claim asserted in the paper (conceptual/literature-based argument), no empirical sample or quantitative test reported.
high null result Beyond Human-Readable: Rethinking Software Engineering Conve... orientation of software engineering design towards human developers
Through a causal decomposition that automates one side of agent communication, we separate cooperation failures from competence failures, tracing their origins through agent reasoning analysis.
Method described in the paper: causal decomposition approach that automates one side of communication and analyzes agent reasoning to attribute failures (methodological claim; abstract mentions the approach but gives no sample size or quantitative metrics there).
high null result More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... ability to distinguish cooperation failures from competence failures
Capability does not predict cooperation.
Comparative experimental results reported in the paper showing different models with different capability levels achieving substantially different collective cooperation outcomes (specifically comparing OpenAI o3 and o3-mini).
high null result More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... degree of cooperation / collective performance
We build a multi-agent setup designed to study cooperative behavior in a frictionless environment, removing all strategic complexity from cooperation.
Methodological description in the paper: design and implementation of a multi-agent experimental setup intended to remove strategic complexity (no sample size or quantitative detail reported in the abstract).
high null result More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost ... ability to study cooperation in a frictionless environment (methodological capab...
A pre-registered experiment evaluates this thesis in a commons production economy -- where agents share a finite resource pool and collaboratively produce value -- at 50-1,000 agent scale.
Paper states that a pre-registered experiment is planned/described; the experiment context (commons production economy) and planned scale (50-1,000 agents) are specified in the excerpt. No experimental outcomes or effect estimates are reported here.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... alignment-through-accountability in a commons production economy (collective pro...
We instantiate SoP in AgentCity on an EVM-compatible layer-2 blockchain (L2) with a three-tier contract hierarchy (foundational, meta, and operational).
Reported implementation/instantiation described in the paper (system implementation claim). The paper states the platform (AgentCity) and technical details (EVM-compatible L2, three-tier contracts).
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... existence/implementation of SoP via AgentCity on L2 with three-tier hierarchy
In this architecture, smart contracts are the law itself -- the actual legislative output that agents produce and that governs their behavior.
Architectural/design claim in the paper describing conceptual role of smart contracts within SoP; presented as an intended property of the system.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... role of smart contracts as legislative instrument for agent behavior
Agents discover, transact with, and delegate to agents owned by other parties without centralized oversight.
Asserted behavior pattern of autonomous agents in the paper's motivation; presented as descriptive claim rather than supported by a reported experiment or dataset in the excerpt.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... ability of agents to discover, transact, and delegate across ownership boundarie...
Autonomous AI agents are beginning to operate across organizational boundaries on the open internet.
Stated as an empirical observation in the paper's introduction/introduction-level motivation; no specific dataset or sample described in the text excerpt.
high null result AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Ec... cross-organization operation of autonomous agents
The divergence in collective outputs is not driven by participants abandoning AI, but by how participants use it.
Behavioral/usage data from the RCT indicating continued AI use across incentive conditions and differing usage patterns (no sample size or quantitative metrics provided in excerpt).
high null result Incentives shape how humans co-create with generative AI continued use of AI (vs. abandonment)
We conducted a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of 627 articles.
Statement in abstract reporting a systematic review and bibliometric analysis; sample size explicitly given as 627 articles.
high null result Advancing Decision-Making through AI-Human Collaboration: A ... number of articles reviewed / literature corpus
The governance calibration problem — balancing control with the autonomy that gives agentic AI its value — emerges as the STS joint optimization challenge: governance must simultaneously enable and constrain autonomous operation.
Authors' synthesis and theoretical claim based on STS analysis and identified tensions between autonomy benefits and control needs in the literature.
high null result BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION governance_calibration_challenge
Agentic AI transformation barriers constitute an interdependent sociotechnical system rather than isolated obstacles.
Interpretive conclusion drawn from STS mapping and cross-barrier interaction analysis across the reviewed literature.
high null result BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION interdependence_of_barriers
Governance serves as the social subsystem's primary mechanism for managing the technical subsystem.
Interpretation from STS analysis in the review: authors identify governance as the key social mechanism constraining/enabling technical subsystem behavior.
high null result BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION role_of_governance_between_subsystems
STS mapping based on root-cause analysis revealed that 12 barriers originate in the technical subsystem and 17 in the social subsystem.
Authors' STS mapping of the 29 barriers to subsystem origins (technical vs. social) as derived from their root-cause analysis of the coded literature.
high null result BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION subsystem_origin_of_barriers
Twenty-nine barriers were identified and classified into five dimensions: technological (7), organizational (7), human (6), governance and regulatory (4), and economic (5).
Results of inductive coding of the 30-source literature corpus yielding 29 distinct barriers and reported counts per dimension.
high null result BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION number_and_classification_of_barriers
Sociotechnical Systems (STS) theory was applied as an interpretive lens to map dimensions onto social and technical subsystems and analyze cross-subsystem interactions.
Self-reported analytic approach: application of STS theory to the coded barriers to map origins and interactions across subsystems.
high null result BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION analytic_framework_application
Barriers were identified inductively through open and axial coding.
Self-reported qualitative method: inductive thematic analysis using open and axial coding on the literature corpus.
high null result BARRIERS TO AGENTIC AI ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION analytic_method