W4390940540 Working papers AI × management and organizations

The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance

Nicholas Otis · Rowan Clarke · Solène Delecourt · David Holtz · Rembrand Koning

Also recorded as: doi:10.2139/ssrn.4671369 · ssrn:4671369

ssrn abstract page · 2024-01-17

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Recorded claims

Each claim states what the inspected source says, at the recorded location—bounded by its scope and graded by its confidence. Nothing here is a synthesis across works.

In a randomized field experiment with Kenyan entrepreneurs, a GPT-4 business assistant produced no detectable average revenue or profit effect; the abstract reports that the lower-performing subgroup's effect was almost 0.25 standard deviations below the higher-performing subgroup's, with lower performers nearly 10% worse and gains above 15% for higher performers described as possible rather than definitive.

confidence: moderate ssrn-abstract-page apw-e1-ssrn-backfill

Scope: Universe: Kenyan entrepreneurs and their firms; unit: entrepreneur/firm performance; period: not displayed; denominator: randomized sample and subgroup counts not displayed. The subgroup statistics are denominator-incomplete abstract figures and should be treated as anecdotal until full denominators are known.

Structured relationships

In-corpus citations

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Limitations & independence

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Recorded limitations

  • Abstract-level evidence only; full text was not inspected.
  • Sample size, subgroup thresholds and counts, confidence intervals, outcome definitions, and follow-up period are not displayed; the higher-performer result is tentative.
  • The displayed posted date precedes the written date.

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