ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) that has taken the world by storm recently, with hundreds of millions of Internet users rushing to play with it and raving about its range of applications. But with every new type of technology, and despite the incentive to experiment quickly, it's wise...

Two technologies (RPA robotics facilitating automation and video collaboration technology supporting work from home) have lately been invading the organization of work, and have notably accelerated their inroads thanks to the recent covid pandemic. Whether this evolution is part of a “new...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of corporate resilience in the face of sudden and severe shocks to the global economy. In response, there has been renewed interest in studying the capabilities that enable firms to weather such crises. Previous studies have identified a range...

We investigate how the use of AI technlogies scales within a global sample of most global corporations.In particular, we find a superstar effect whereby only the top quartile of firms generate significant rents of out their investment in AI technologies. Lookingnext at what discriminates those...

The literature has long emphasized that ICT returns are boosted by ICT complements. especially for disruptive and transformational technologies, such as digital technologies. We estimate returns associated with a broad family of digital technologies, and zoom at two types of complements:...

More than one year after the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared, the profit performance among large companies worldwide has been bifurcating between 1/3 of companies bouncing forward with higher profit trajectory as per before the crisis while the other firms are continuing to suffer a...