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    Artificial intelligence and policy making; can small municipalities enable digital transformation?

    Koliousis, I. and Al-Surmi, Abdulrahman and Bashiri, M. (2024) Artificial intelligence and policy making; can small municipalities enable digital transformation? International Journal of Production Economics 274 (109324), ISSN 0925-5273.

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    Abstract

    This study investigates digital transformation and the usability of emerging technologies in policymaking. Prior studies categorised digital transformation into three distinct phases of digitisation, digitalisation, and digital transformation. They mainly focus on the operational or functional levels, however, this study considers digital transformation at the strategic level. Previous studies confirmed that using new emerging AI-based technologies will enable organisations to use digital transformation to achieve higher efficiency. A novel methodological AI-based approach for policymaking was constructed into three phases through the lens of organisational learning theory. The proposed framework was validated using a case study in the transportation industry of a small municipality. In the selected case study, a confirmatory model was developed and tested utilising the Structural Equation Modelling with data collected from a survey of 494 local stakeholders. Artificial Neural Network was utilised to predict and then to identify the most appropriate policy according to cost, feasibility, and impact criteria amongst six policies extracted from the literature. The results from this research confirm that utilisation of the AI-based strategic decision-making through the proposed generative AI platform at strategic level outperforms human decision-making in terms of applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Digital transformation, Strategic decision making, Policy, Generative AI, SEM
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Abdulrahman Al-Surmi
    Date Deposited: 08 Jul 2024 09:34
    Last Modified: 09 Jul 2024 10:29
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53753

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