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Evidence (8974 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 882 244 117 1097 2424
Governance & Regulation 1010 469 229 135 1875
Organizational Efficiency 977 235 149 90 1462
Technology Adoption Rate 781 299 143 128 1362
Research Productivity 506 155 74 363 1110
Output Quality 555 219 71 70 915
Decision Quality 395 200 95 54 751
Firm Productivity 523 67 101 27 724
AI Safety & Ethics 262 309 75 36 688
Market Structure 195 201 135 30 566
Task Allocation 248 77 96 38 464
Innovation Output 300 34 55 20 411
Skill Acquisition 207 75 65 21 368
Employment Level 138 67 119 24 350
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 156 80 53 33 329
Task Completion Time 211 38 13 16 280
Firm Revenue 183 52 29 5 270
Consumer Welfare 131 77 48 13 269
Inequality Measures 50 141 54 9 254
Worker Satisfaction 104 85 25 13 227
Error Rate 87 112 11 5 215
Automation Exposure 69 69 37 20 198
Wages & Compensation 102 49 31 11 193
Team Performance 115 30 30 11 187
Regulatory Compliance 88 74 17 7 186
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 116 21 15 8 161
Job Displacement 12 92 26 1 131
Hiring & Recruitment 57 12 9 5 83
Skill Obsolescence 6 59 10 2 77
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 23 17 1 59
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
Industry 1 1
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With the instruction files, 27.7% of the projects increased their merge rate by at least 20%.
Reported proportion of projects showing an increase in merge rate after creating instruction files based on the pre/post comparison of projects in the dataset (148 projects, 15,549 PRs).
high positive Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Ins... merge rate of agentic pull requests (projects with at least 20% increase)
Zhu et al. (2026) through a longitudinal case study propose a four-phase staged model (Digital Element Sedimentation; Digital-Intelligent Formation; Convergent Network Integration; Smart Engine Leap) explaining how traditional printing firms undergo digital transformation.
Longitudinal single-case study of Century Innovation as described in the paper.
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... staged progression of digital transformation
Li et al. (2026) identify three cross-level models for high growth among digital startups (resource network orchestration model, innovation resource development model, entrepreneurial spirit coherence model) and find digital resource integration capability is a universal condition underpinning entrepreneurial growth.
Empirical/theoretical cross-level analysis reported in the paper (methods and sample size not given in excerpt).
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... high growth of digital startups
Ma et al. (2026) show via machine learning and text analytics that an innovation culture stimulates R&D investment and aligns firm strategy toward digitalization; this positive impact is amplified by government innovation attention, especially in tech-intensive and non-state-owned enterprises.
Empirical analysis using machine learning and text analytics as described (specific sample size not provided).
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... R&D investment and strategic alignment toward digitalization
Zhao et al. (2026) using social network analysis find robust peer effects within common ownership networks: firms in central network positions are more susceptible to peer influence, and industry leaders create demonstration effects that accelerate digital transformation among followers.
Social network analysis reported in the paper (methods referenced; sample size not provided in the excerpt).
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... digital transformation among firms
Xu and Li (2026) demonstrate that technological core executives accelerate industrial AI transformation by leveraging parent–subsidiary executive connections and mobilizing subsidiary resources, improving supply chain efficiency and digital innovation.
Sector-specific empirical study in manufacturing reported in the paper (methods referenced; sample size not provided in excerpt).
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... industrial AI transformation, supply chain efficiency, digital innovation
Xu et al. (2026) find a positive relationship between top management teams' technological orientation and digital transformation investment in Chinese state-owned enterprises, conditional on managerial myopia, organizational slack, and environmental uncertainty.
Empirical analysis of Chinese state-owned enterprises reported in the paper (method and sample size not specified in the excerpt).
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... digital transformation investment
Chou et al. (2026a, 2026b) show in internet-only banking that perceived trust and service quality are fundamental determinants of consumer intention, while social influence plays a context-sensitive role; results validated with K-means clustering and a machine learning-assisted analytical approach.
Empirical analysis using Stimulus-Organism-Response framework, SEM/ML methods, and K-means clustering as reported in the paper.
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... consumer intention to adopt/use internet-only banking
Chen et al. (2026) find that argument quality and source credibility significantly enhance subscription intentions and willingness to pay more for GenAI tools among cross-border e-commerce operators; internet celebrity and user endorsements are key drivers of credibility.
Empirical study using the Elaboration Likelihood Model as described in the paper (study specifics such as sample size not reported in the text).
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... subscription intention and willingness to pay for GenAI tools
AI can better emulate cognitive functions that were once the exclusive domain of human experts.
Literature citation (Huang and Rust, 2021) and summary statement in the paper.
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... AI emulation of expert cognitive functions
AI adoption enables managers to more efficiently use vast data streams for innovation and strategic orientation.
Cited conceptual/empirical claim attributed to Luo and Wang (2026) and discussion in the paper summarizing literature and observed trends.
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... managerial use of data for innovation and strategic orientation (efficiency)
In 2025, China’s digital economy contributed nearly 45% of the national GDP.
Stated in paper as a factual statistic (cited as [1]); presumably based on national economic statistics for 2025 referenced by the authors.
high positive Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... share of national GDP contributed by digital economy
There is a need for good prioritization of tasks so that generated fixes do not lead to wasted human review efforts or wasted agent resources (e.g., tokens, compute, or allowed number of requests).
Authors' conclusion based on observed rejection rates and categorized reasons; recommendation to reduce wasted review/agent resources.
high positive Understanding the Rejection of Fixes Generated by Agentic Pu... task prioritization to reduce wasted human and agent resources
The results suggest improving model guidance by (1) proposing hints about the approach to follow for fixing an issue, (2) outlining constraints or limitations regarding approaches that should not be taken, and (3) instructing the agent on how to validate the implementation through CI pipelines and without introducing a breaking change.
Recommendations derived from the qualitative findings and analysis of rejection reasons in the paper.
high positive Understanding the Rejection of Fixes Generated by Agentic Pu... effectiveness of proposed guidance interventions for AI agents
AI coding agents are increasingly used to generate pull requests (PRs) that propose code fixes in software projects.
Introductory statement in the paper; no quantitative backing provided in the excerpt.
high positive Understanding the Rejection of Fixes Generated by Agentic Pu... use/adoption of AI coding agents to generate PRs
Higher belief calibration predicts larger incremental value from AI assistance.
Analysis of the Collab-CXR repeated-case assessments using the same analytic framework as Caplin et al. (2025b); includes 68 radiologists and 11,420 paired observations.
high positive Revisiting the ABCs of Working with AI: A Replication with R... incremental diagnostic improvement (AI vs. no-AI) by belief calibration
Lower baseline ability predicts larger incremental value from AI assistance.
Empirical analysis of repeated-case radiologist assessments from the Collab-CXR repository following the methods of Caplin et al. (2025b); sample includes 68 radiologists and 11,420 paired observations.
high positive Revisiting the ABCs of Working with AI: A Replication with R... incremental diagnostic improvement (AI vs. no-AI) by baseline ability
The results of this replication support the external validity of Caplin et al. (2025b)'s core findings: lower baseline ability and higher calibration predict larger incremental value from AI.
Reproduction of the analysis approach in Caplin et al. (2025b) applied to the Collab-CXR repeated-case assessments; uses radiologist assessments from the repeated-case designs (68 radiologists, 11,420 paired radiologist–patient–pathology observations).
high positive Revisiting the ABCs of Working with AI: A Replication with R... incremental value from AI assistance in diagnostic performance
On a diagnostic synthetic dataset tailored for MAS (explicit task decomposition, context separation and parallelization potential), expert-architected MAS consistently outperforms automatically generated architectures in both raw performance and cost-efficiency.
Controlled experiments on a synthetic diagnostic dataset designed by the authors to expose MAS advantages, comparing expert-designed MAS vs automatically generated MAS (experimental results reported in the paper).
high positive The Illusion of Multi-Agent Advantage task performance (accuracy/quality) and cost-efficiency
Prevailing wisdom posits that Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are superior to Single-Agent Systems (SAS), citing advantages like context protection, parallel processing and distributed decision-making.
Statement of background / literature consensus in the paper (no specific empirical study cited in the excerpt).
high positive The Illusion of Multi-Agent Advantage comparative system capability (MAS vs SAS)
Results illustrate how world feedback from a live economic and logistics system can be used to safely adapt decision policies online.
Generalization drawn from the reported deployment and switchback experiment showing practical use of delayed operational outcomes as feedback to adapt policies; presented as an implication of the empirical results in the paper.
high positive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... use of world feedback to adapt policies safely
In a production switchback experiment, the offline-trained policy reduces courier-side time costs.
Empirical claim from the production switchback experiment in the paper; reported reduction in courier-side time costs but no numerical magnitude or sample size provided in the excerpt.
In a production switchback experiment, the offline-trained policy increases batching.
Empirical claim supported by a production switchback experiment reported in the paper; the excerpt states an increase in batching but does not provide sample size or numerical effect size.
We use Double Q-learning targets and a conservative regularizer to reduce out-of-distribution value overestimation.
Methodological claim: inclusion of Double Q-learning targets and a conservative regularizer in training to mitigate overestimation; no quantitative measurement of reduction provided in excerpt.
high positive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... out-of-distribution value overestimation (reduction)
We train a shared value function using centralized offline data and decentralized store-level execution.
Methodological statement describing training procedure: centralized offline dataset used to train a shared value function that is executed in a decentralized fashion at store level (no performance numbers given in excerpt).
high positive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... shared value function trained from centralized offline data
This interface enables offline policy learning under noisy, delayed, and coupled feedback while preserving production feasibility constraints and operational safeguards.
Claim based on system design: using the multiplier interface keeps combinatorial optimizer intact and allows offline learning from logged delayed signals while maintaining feasibility and safeguards (no quantified evaluation included in excerpt).
high positive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... ability to perform offline policy learning while preserving feasibility/safeguar...
We present a deployed reinforcement learning system at DoorDash that adapts dispatch objective weights in a large-scale food-delivery marketplace using delayed signals.
Description of a production deployment and system architecture in the paper; stated as a deployed system adapting dispatch weights using delayed operational outcomes (no numerical sample size reported).
high positive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... deployment and adaptation of RL system to marketplace delayed signals
The same focal MRO's integrated quote-to-contract system generated $6M additional revenue.
Field implementation / technical case study in a focal MRO reported in the paper; method = case study (focal MRO). Single-firm implementation; sample size effectively 1 organisation.
high positive Aviation 4.0: the impacts of digital transformation on the a... additional revenue from integrated quote-to-contract system
A focal MRO's field implementation of an in-house planning platform produced $4.2M annual savings.
Field implementation / technical case study in a focal MRO reported in the paper; method = case study (focal MRO). Single-firm implementation; sample size effectively 1 organisation.
high positive Aviation 4.0: the impacts of digital transformation on the a... annual cost savings from planning platform
Predictive maintenance is the dominant digital priority (prioritised by 56% of respondents).
Industry MRO digital survey reported in the paper (percentage reported: 56%); method = secondary evidence from an industry MRO digital survey. Sample size not stated in abstract.
high positive Aviation 4.0: the impacts of digital transformation on the a... priority ranking of predictive maintenance among digital initiatives
Our results highlight the importance of process-oriented evaluation for reliable assessment of multimodal engineering reasoning systems.
Conclusion drawn by the authors based on the presented dataset, framework, benchmarking results, and human-automated agreement metrics.
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... reliability of assessment methods for multimodal engineering reasoning
Human evaluation shows strong agreement with our automated framework, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.67 on a 10-point grading scale.
Empirical comparison reported in the paper giving MAE between human graders and automated framework on a 10-point scale (MAE value provided; sample size not stated in the excerpt).
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... mean absolute error between human scores and automated framework scores
Human evaluation shows strong agreement with our automated framework, achieving a Pearson correlation of 0.975 with the automated scores.
Empirical comparison between human graders and the automated evaluation framework reported in the paper (Pearson correlation value provided; sample size of human evaluations not stated in the excerpt).
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... correlation between human scores and automated framework scores
The 8-stage framework independently evaluates each stage of the solution, enabling fine-grained analysis of reasoning failures.
Methodological claim about the functionality of the evaluation framework as described in the paper (framework design and intended analytic granularity).
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... ability to perform stage-wise evaluation and identify reasoning failures
We introduce an 8-stage automatic evaluation framework for assessing VLM-generated solutions.
Methodological claim in the paper describing the design of an 8-stage automatic evaluation framework (paper method section).
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... existence and design of an 8-stage automatic evaluation framework
EngVQA contains 696 problems.
Explicit dataset size reported in the paper ("containing 696 problems").
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... number of problems in the benchmark
We introduce EngVQA, a multimodal benchmark for evaluating engineering reasoning across 5 engineering subjects.
Dataset/method claim in the paper describing the scope of the introduced benchmark (explicitly states '5 engineering subjects').
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... coverage of engineering subjects in the benchmark
Engineering problem solving requires interpreting technical diagrams, selecting governing physical principles, and maintaining physically consistent multi-step reasoning.
Conceptual claim made in the paper describing the requirements of engineering problem-solving (methodological/definitional statement rather than empirical evidence).
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... capabilities required for engineering problem solving (diagram interpretation, p...
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong performance on general multimodal reasoning benchmarks.
Statement in paper citing prior benchmark performance of VLMs on general multimodal reasoning tasks (background claim; no specific benchmark names or numeric results provided in the excerpt).
high positive Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise ... performance on general multimodal reasoning benchmarks
AI is most valuable when used to augment, rather than replace, human supply-chain judgment and when deployment follows an implementation logic centered on resilience, compliance, and measurable operational value.
Review conclusion drawn from the thematic synthesis of the 35 included studies and supporting regulatory/industry guidance.
high positive Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... relative value of AI augmentation vs replacement; implementation logic emphasizi...
Reported outcomes include better visibility for shortage planning.
Outcome summary across included studies and documents (reported in the review); specific metrics not given.
high positive Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... visibility/anticipation for shortage planning
Reported outcomes include reduced manual stock tracking.
Outcome summary across included studies (reported in the review); likely from implementations automating inventory monitoring.
high positive Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... amount of manual stock tracking
Reported outcomes include tighter control of perishability and lost sales.
Outcome summary across included studies (stated in the review); details on magnitude not provided here.
high positive Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... control of perishability and lost sales
Reported outcomes include improved supply and inventory prediction accuracy.
Outcome summary across included studies (reported in the review); no aggregate accuracy metrics provided in the sentence.
high positive Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... supply and inventory prediction accuracy
Reported outcomes include lower average inventory costs.
Outcome summary across included studies (reported in the review); specific studies not quantified in the statement.
The field has moved from descriptive dashboards toward integrated architectures that combine machine-learning forecasting, mathematical optimization, simulation, reinforcement learning, and automated medication management.
Thematic synthesis of the 35 included studies and supporting regulatory/industry documents noting evolution of system architectures in the literature.
high positive Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... technological/architectural evolution of AI systems in pharmacy supply chains
Artificial intelligence is increasingly proposed as a remedy for pharmacy inventory volatility, medicine shortages, and fragmented pharmaceutical supply chains.
Opening statement of the review synthesizing recent literature and proposals across pharmacy operations and supply-chain fields; no specific empirical study cited in the sentence.
high positive Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... AI proposed as remedy for inventory volatility, medicine shortages, fragmented s...
In three wet-lab validation experiments, OpenAI's o4-mini-high produced scripts that, when run on an OpenTrons liquid handling robot, successfully assembled DNA with expected sequences.
Three wet-lab validation experiments reported in the paper where scripts generated by the o4-mini-high model were executed on an OpenTrons robot and yielded DNA assemblies matching expected sequences.
high positive ABC-Bench: An Agentic Bio-Capabilities Benchmark for Biosecu... successful DNA assembly with expected sequences
Agents performed highly on tasks drawing on published knowledge and well-documented protocols.
Reported breakdown of agent performance across task types in ABC-Bench showing strong results on protocol-driven / literature-grounded tasks (authors' summary statement in results).
high positive ABC-Bench: An Agentic Bio-Capabilities Benchmark for Biosecu... performance on protocol- and literature-based tasks
All tested LLM agents outperformed the median expert human baseline on all three tasks.
Benchmark evaluation results reported in the paper comparing multiple LLM agents against a median expert human baseliner across the three ABC-Bench tasks. (The excerpt does not report number of agents or number of human experts.)
high positive ABC-Bench: An Agentic Bio-Capabilities Benchmark for Biosecu... task performance relative to median expert human baseline