The impact of big data on decision‐making, processes and organizational change: An essay of synthesis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This special issue looks at how big data affects business decisions, processes, and organizational change within organizations. The issue starts with a review of the latest research in the field, including key developments and ongoing debates. The literature review shows how Big Data is affecting how organizations work, including ethical issues, internal rules, and using new technology. Next, the issue presents three key papers on how Big Data affects modern organizations. The first paper looks at how Big Data how Big Data is helping to make cities smarter. The third paper looks at how new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing affect financial organizations. Together, these contributions show the need to balance innovation with risk management. They advocate for ethical considerations and policy frameworks as organizations navigate the complexities of the Big Data era. This essay of synthesis, from literature review to focused studies on decision‐making, operations, and organizational change, provides a holistic understanding of the role of Big Data in shaping the future of business.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".