A Ten-Year Odyssey of the 'IS Productivity Paradox' - A Citation Analysis (1996-2006)
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The information systems “productivity paradox” has become an important catalyst for research within the IS field. This study examines how the paradox has impacted IS research through a content analysis of 150 articles published between 1996 and 2006 that cite Brynjolfsson and Hitt’s seminal productivity paradox paper (e.g., Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). The results show that the original paradox has largely been resolved due to more sophisticated and refined data sources, a shift in the level of analysis, and a refocus on the management of IS. However, a more complex picture has emerged about the link between IS and outcome variables. This paper explores this complexity in order to identify remaining gaps and propose directions for future research.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it