NBER paper: early AI productivity gains are creating organizational capital
TaniaBabina · x · 2026-11-14
Tania Babina shared the paper "Canaries in the Gold Mine: Early Productivity Gains from Artificial Intelligence Creating Organization Capital" (with Daniel Rock among the discussants), presented at the NBER Organizational Economics conference.
The paper studies firms' early productivity gains from AI adoption and how AI creates organizational capital—the knowledge, processes and collaborative assets accumulated inside firms.
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