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AI-Driven Digital Transformation and Export Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review
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Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a core enabler of digital transformation, strengthening firms’ capabilities and shaping new forms of economic value creation. By integrating smart automation, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making, AI adoption enhances operational efficiency, reduces coordination and transaction costs, and improves firms’ long-term competitiveness. In international business contexts, these benefits contribute to higher export intensity, better product quality, and bro…
The gain
A meta-analysis of 22 empirical studies covering 404,664 observations found AI adoption was significantly and positively associated with firms' export performance, though the pooled correlation was small (r = 0.0633).
What this doesn’t fix
The pooled association is small and extremely heterogeneous (I2 = 99.09%), so the authors say the evidence does not support a universal claim that AI raises export performance.
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1 on file- Economicsdoi:10.1515/econ-2025-0244
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v1Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2718, v1: “AI-Driven Digital Transformation and Export Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review.” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2718 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 5d786b558d191240…
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