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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 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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These findings challenge the notion of a universal technological dividend from AI (i.e., AI does not automatically deliver uniform productivity gains across firms).
Overall interpretation/synthesis of heterogeneous empirical results from the panel and cluster analyses showing variation in productivity effects across firm types.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... existence of universal productivity gains from AI
AI adoption yields asymmetric productivity gains depending on firms' resource constraints and competitive environments (i.e., heterogeneity rather than a homogeneous effect).
Heterogeneity analysis using multidimensional clustering (firm size, age, market competitiveness, digital infrastructure) applied to the panel dataset; reported differential effects across clusters.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... Total Factor Productivity (TFP) heterogeneity
AI adoption affects Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of firms.
Panel regression analysis using the stated panel dataset examining relationship between AI adoption and firm-level TFP.
high mixed The Heterogeneous Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Ente... Total Factor Productivity (TFP)
Scientific institutions, distinctively, manufacture legitimate judgment, so they do not merely adapt to AI; they compete with it for the same functional role.
Conceptual/theoretical assertion in the paper describing institutional roles; no empirical data or sample size provided in the excerpt.
high mixed AI-Augmented Science and the New Institutional Scarcities competition between scientific institutions and AI for the functional role of pr...
While Agentic AI enhances economic performance, its benefits are mediated by structural conditions and are unevenly distributed across countries (i.e., reinforcing core–periphery inequalities).
Combined findings from fixed-effects regressions, mediation analysis, and observed heterogeneity between developed and emerging economies in the 2015–2024 panel.
high mixed The Economic Value of Agentic AI: A Comparative Analysis of ... distribution of economic benefits from AI across countries (inequality of gains)
AI learns indiscriminately from implicit knowledge, acquiring both beneficial patterns and harmful biases.
Asserted in the paper as a conceptual point about training data and learned patterns; no empirical evaluation or quantified bias measures provided.
high mixed Reliable AI Needs to Externalize Implicit Knowledge: A Human... patterns and biases acquired by AI from implicit knowledge
The rise of digital agents will transform the foundations of production, labour markets, institutional arrangements and the international distribution of economic power.
Synthesis and theoretical projection across sections of the paper; presented as a broad conclusion without reported empirical quantification in the provided text.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... transformation of production systems, labour markets, institutions, and internat...
There is a fundamental asymmetry between economic and social reproduction: digital agents can compensate for productive functions of the population but are unable to substitute the population's functions of social reproduction.
Theoretical argument and conceptual distinction in the paper; no empirical study measuring substitution in social reproduction provided.
high mixed DIGITAL AGENTS AS FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF ECONOMIC ACTORS:... capacity of digital agents to substitute productive vs social reproduction funct...
LLMs are able to extract signals from unstructured text (financial news headlines) but have limitations without explicit quantitative optimization.
Interpretation in discussion/conclusion: empirical finding that LLM-based portfolios beat naive diversification but underperform AI-optimized strategies, implying LLMs extract signals from text yet lack full optimization capability.
high mixed Few-Shot Portfolio Optimization: Can Large Language Models O... ability to extract actionable signals from unstructured text as reflected in por...
Statistical tests confirmed significant performance differences (p ≤ 0.01).
Reported inferential statistics in results: statistical tests comparing strategy performances produced p-values at or below 0.01.
high mixed Few-Shot Portfolio Optimization: Can Large Language Models O... statistical significance of performance differences between strategies
Firms may continue to exist as legal and physical entities, but their coordinating function will be displaced as they become data nodes within regionally governed AI infrastructure.
Predictive/conceptual claim within the framework; no empirical sample reported in the excerpt and presented as a theoretical outcome of Interface Internalization.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... change in the coordinating role of firms (from coordinators to data nodes)
The Structural Dissolution Framework challenges the Coasian view that organizational boundaries are determined by transaction cost minimization, arguing that AI makes such boundaries economically obsolete.
Theoretical critique of transaction-cost-based explanations for firm boundaries presented in the paper; argumentative and conceptual rather than supported by empirical tests in the provided summary.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... economic relevance of transaction-cost-based firm boundaries
Regional data sovereignty entities will emerge as organizational forms that replace the coordinating role of firms and markets.
Normative/predictive claim within the paper's framework arguing for new organizational forms (regional data sovereignty entities); illustrated conceptually (e.g., through resource-dependent regional economies) rather than empirically tested in the provided text.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... emergence of regional data sovereignty entities as coordinators
Domain-specific data refinement infrastructure will become the new basis of positional control in industries.
Theoretical claim in the framework asserting a shift in positional control to data refinement infrastructure; presented as a predicted structural outcome rather than supported by empirical data in the provided text.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... basis of positional control (movement to data refinement infrastructure)
AI adoption moves value creation away from physical resources and human collaboration toward continuous token flows produced through data refinement loops.
Theoretical/analytical claim within the Structural Dissolution Framework and illustrative discussion; no empirical quantification provided in the text excerpt.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... source of value creation (physical/human → data/token flows)
The mechanism driving this restructuring is 'Interface Internalization', through which inter-agent coordination is absorbed into intra-system computation.
Conceptual mechanism defined and argued in the paper; presented as the central theoretical mechanism rather than as an empirically validated finding.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... shift of coordination from inter-agent (firms/markets) to intra-system computati...
AI dissolves the boundaries that once separated firms, markets, experts, and consumers by internalizing human multimodal interfaces (language, vision, and behavioral data) into computational systems.
Theoretical argument and conceptual framework introduced in the paper (Structural Dissolution Framework); no empirical sample or quantitative analysis reported for this claim in the text provided.
high mixed Structural Dissolution: How Artificial Intelligence Dismantl... dissolution of boundaries between firms, markets, experts, and consumers
Differences between models are large enough to shape outcomes in practice, so reliability should be incorporated alongside average performance when assessing and deploying LLMs in high-stakes decision contexts.
Authors' interpretation of empirical differences in funding decisions, scores, confidence, and reliability across models in the controlled experiment; presented as an implication/recommendation.
high mixed Algorithmic personalities and the myth of neutrality: financ... policy recommendation regarding assessment criteria (reliability + average perfo...
This hybrid Make governance form has qualitatively different economics, capability requirements, and governance structures than pre-AI in-house development.
Paper's conceptual comparison between pre-AI hierarchy and post-AI hybrid Make governance (theoretical reasoning and examples; no empirical quantification).
high mixed The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... economics and capability requirements of in-house development governance
AI reshapes seven canonical decision determinants for make-or-buy choices: cost, strategic differentiation, asset specificity, vendor lock-in, time-to-market, quality and compliance, and organizational capability.
Paper's factor-level conceptual analysis enumerating and discussing seven determinants (theoretical synthesis rather than empirical measurement).
high mixed The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes... sensitivity of canonical make-or-buy determinants to AI
Objectives, constraints, and prompt guidance affect reliability and generalization.
Authors' analysis and discussion based on experiments and ablations described in the paper (qualitative/empirical observations about sensitivity to objectives, constraints, and prompts).
The architect's role is shifting, but the human remains central.
Authors' discussion and interpretive analysis about the role of humans in agentic AI-driven design processes.
Across evolved designs, components often correspond to known techniques; the novelty lies in how they are coordinated.
Authors' qualitative analysis of evolved architectures and components reported in the paper (design inspection and interpretation of evolved solutions).
The paper extends paradox theory to conceptualise the Creativity Paradox in the context of GenAI.
Theoretical extension and conceptual development within the paper (no empirical tests reported).
high mixed Beyond the Creativity Paradox: A Theory-informed Framework f... extension of paradox theory (Creativity Paradox)
Within that n=11 subset, 9 of 11 agents shift by at least 2 ranks between composite and benchmark-only rankings.
Comparison of rank positions between composite and benchmark-only rankings on the 11-agent subset; reported count of agents that moved at least 2 ranks.
high mixed AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... count/proportion of agents with ≥2-rank shifts
The four factors capture largely complementary information (n=50; ρ_max = 0.61 for Adoption-Ecosystem, all others |ρ| ≤ 0.37).
Correlation analysis among the four factor scores computed on the 50-agent sample; reported maximum inter-factor Pearson/Spearman correlation coefficients.
high mixed AgentPulse: A Continuous Multi-Signal Framework for Evaluati... inter-factor correlations (Adoption vs Ecosystem and other factor pairs)
Firms with a high market position tend to imitate the peer leader, whereas firms in middle and low market positions are more likely to follow the peer group.
Heterogeneity analysis / subgroup regressions in fixed-effects models on panel data of publicly listed Chinese firms (2012–2023), stratifying firms by market position (high, middle, low).
high mixed Following the Herd or the Bellwether: Peer Effects in Firms’... focal firm AI adoption level (differential peer influence by firm market positio...
Semiconductors are a representative case study for analyzing weaponized interdependence in advanced technology sectors.
Methodological claim in the paper: selection and focus on the semiconductor sector as illustrative of broader advanced-technology sector dynamics under export restraints and chokepoint activation.
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... suitability of semiconductors as a representative sector for studying weaponized...
Previous literature is based primarily on the short-term effectiveness of coercion; this paper shifts attention to the longer-term structural consequences of technological restraints.
Literature review and positioning in the paper contrasting prior studies' short-term focus with the paper's longer-term structural emphasis (methodological/literature-critique claim).
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... scholarly framing of effects of technological coercion (short-term vs. long-term...
Over time, U.S.–China reaction–counterreaction interactions generate three structural transformations: supply-chain reconfiguration, substitution, and regulations reinforcing segmentation.
Synthesis from the paper's longitudinal/case-analysis of semiconductor-related export restraints and subsequent industry and regulatory responses (qualitative identification of three emergent structural outcomes).
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... structural transformations in technology supply chains and regulatory regimes
Current instability in U.S.–China relations arises less from complete ideological divergence or failure of outright containment policy than from a structured reaction–counterreaction dynamic triggered by chokepoint activation.
Argument based on qualitative analysis of U.S. export restraints after the first Trump administration and application of the 'weaponized interdependence' framework to advanced-technology sectors (paper's theoretical argument and case discussion).
high mixed Weaponized Interdependence and Dynamics of Partial Decouplin... primary driver(s) of instability in U.S.–China technological relations
The study explores implications of algorithmic enterprises for competitive advantage, labour markets, and regulatory policy.
Declared scope of the paper in the abstract; exploration is conceptual and analytical rather than reporting empirical findings or quantified effects.
high mixed Algorithmic Enterprises: Rethinking Firm Strategy in the Age... implications for firm competitive advantage, labour market outcomes, and policy
Agentic AI differs from traditional algorithmic trading and generative AI through its capacity for goal-oriented autonomy, continuous learning, and multi-agent coordination.
Analytic comparison and synthesis across prior research and technical architectures in the survey; descriptive/definitional rather than empirical testing.
high mixed Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Finance: A Comprehensive ... capability differences (goal-oriented autonomy, continuous learning, multi-agent...
Operationalizing hardware-based governance must address transition realities including legacy hardware, attestation at scale, and protection of civil liberties.
Policy implementation analysis in the paper identifying practical challenges to deploying hardware-layer controls (conceptual/operational analysis; no empirical trial data provided).
high mixed The Open-Weight Paradox: Why Restricting Access to AI Models... practical hurdles to governance deployment (legacy hardware, attestation scalabi...
Multi-agent workflows and benchmark evaluation reveal current capabilities, limitations, and research frontiers in agentic AI for physical design.
The paper states it analyzes recent experience with multi-agent workflows and benchmark evaluation; the abstract does not provide specific benchmark names, metrics, or sample sizes.
high mixed Invited: Agentic AI for Physical Design R&D: Status and Pros... capabilities and limitations as identified via multi-agent workflows and benchma...
Effective AI policy mixes are contingent on regional resource endowments and development conditions (i.e., variation across configurations indicates contingency on regional context).
Observed variation across the fsQCA-derived configurations; authors interpret differences as reflecting dependence on regional resources and development conditions.
high mixed How Can Artificial Intelligence Policies Promote the Sustain... regional science and technology industrial competitiveness
Artificial intelligence raises the threshold at which refinement adds value.
Theoretical/analytical statement in the paper describing AI's effect on the marginal value of refinement; no empirical quantification provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Market Dynamics, Governance and Open Research Metadata in th... threshold of refinement effort required before additional value is realized
AI is becoming a geopolitical tool that defines trade, finance, supply chains, surveillance abilities, and diplomatic bargaining power.
Conceptual/qualitative synthesis in the paper's argument; no empirical methods or sample size reported in the abstract.
high mixed ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF ECONOMIC IN... influence over trade, finance, supply chains, surveillance capabilities, and dip...
Targeted prompt interventions significantly alter the magnitude of market bubbles (they can amplify or suppress bubble size).
Randomized (or otherwise experimentally manipulated) prompt interventions applied to LLM agents in the simulated open-call auction, with resulting differences in measured bubble magnitude reported.
high mixed Dissecting AI Trading: Behavioral Finance and Market Bubbles magnitude of market bubbles
By analyzing agents' reasoning text through a twenty-mechanism scoring framework, targeted prompt interventions causally amplify or suppress specific behavioral mechanisms.
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of agents' chain-of-thought / reasoning text using a 20-mechanism scoring framework; experimental manipulations of prompts reported to change mechanism scores (interpreted causally as interventions on prompts).
high mixed Dissecting AI Trading: Behavioral Finance and Market Bubbles mechanism scores derived from agents' reasoning text (20-mechanism framework)
Both US and Chinese strategies depend on cross-country relationships in AI innovation.
Conceptual assertion motivating the network analysis of international collaborations and citations.
high mixed Polarization and Integration in Global AI Research dependence of national strategies on cross-country research relationships
Overall, the proposed HRL framework improves learning efficiency and scalability, outperforming heuristic baselines while remaining below the perfect-information oracle bound.
Results reported in the paper from simulation experiments comparing the HRL framework to heuristic baselines and the oracle; pairwise differences analyzed (Wilcoxon tests referenced). The paper asserts better performance than heuristics but still worse than the oracle.
high mixed Omnichannel Supply Chains Amid Demand Shocks: A Centralized ... policy performance (learning efficiency, scalability, and supply-chain control p...
The proposed safety-filter outperforms a standalone deep reinforcement learning-based controller in energy and cost metrics, with only a slight increase in comfort temperature violations.
Reported experimental comparison between the safety-filter-enhanced controller and a standalone DRL controller in the paper; specific metrics and sample size not provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Building Heating Contro... energy metrics, cost metrics, and comfort temperature violations
Digitization is reshaping the structures of Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) instead of eliminating it completely (Yordanova & Hristozov, 2025).
Conceptual/theoretical claim supported by citation to Yordanova & Hristozov (2025); presented as an interpretive conclusion about how digitization interacts with organizational dependence structures. No empirical details provided in the excerpt.
high mixed Re-Evaluation of Resource Dependence in AI Enabled SME Finan... structure of resource dependence / organizational dependence on external resourc...
Cross-border citations show continued technological interdependence rather than decoupling, with Chinese AI inventors relying more heavily on U.S. frontier knowledge than vice versa.
Citation analysis of cross-border patent citations between Chinese and U.S. AI patents (paper reports asymmetry in reliance based on citation patterns).
high mixed AI Patents in the United States and China: Measurement, Orga... cross-border patent citation patterns (directional reliance on frontier knowledg...
The organization of AI innovation differs sharply: U.S. AI patenting is concentrated among large private incumbents and established hubs, whereas Chinese AI patenting is more geographically diffuse and institutionally diverse, with larger roles for universities and state-owned enterprises.
Analysis of assignee types, geographic dispersion, and institutional composition of AI patents in the two countries (concentration metrics and assignee categorizations described in paper).
high mixed AI Patents in the United States and China: Measurement, Orga... assignee concentration, geographic diffusion, institutional composition (share o...
The inverted U-shaped pattern between AI knowledge stickiness and technological concentration is more clearly detected in eastern cities and in small and medium-sized cities; in large cities the quadratic term is not statistically significant.
Heterogeneity/subsample regressions by region (east vs. other) and city size categories within the city-year panel (2014–2023); statistical significance of quadratic term differs across subsamples.
high mixed Knowledge stickiness and technological concentration in the ... technological concentration (presence and significance of nonlinear relationship...
Technological complexity moderates the nonlinear (inverted U) association between AI knowledge stickiness and technological concentration by altering its strength and curvature rather than producing a simple, uniform shift in the turning point.
Interaction/heterogeneity analyses in the two-way fixed-effects city-year panel (2014–2023), examining moderating role of a technological complexity measure on the quadratic association.
high mixed Knowledge stickiness and technological concentration in the ... technological concentration (degree and curvature of the stickiness–concentratio...
There is an inverted U-shaped association between AI knowledge stickiness and technological concentration: higher stickiness up to a limit leads to more concentration and thereafter the opposite.
City-year panel combining AI patent applications with urban statistics for 2014–2023; two-way fixed-effects regression showing a significant positive linear and negative quadratic term (nonlinear association).
high mixed Knowledge stickiness and technological concentration in the ... technological concentration (allocation of AI activity across sub-technology bra...
Big data analytics (BDA) adoption is a risky strategy with potentially high rewards for start-ups.
Stated as a summary conclusion based on empirical analysis of a large sample of start-ups in Germany comparing adopters and non-adopters across multiple performance measures (survival, costs, sales, employee growth, access to financing).
high mixed Big data-based management decisions and start-up performance overall performance/risk–reward tradeoff