Firm Size and Sector Gaps in Enterprise AI Adoption: Germany and the EU-27 in 2025

Readiness, Not Restriction: Firm Size, Digital Infrastructure, And the Conditional Effect of Regulatory Intensity on Enterprise AI Adoption in the European Union

Results indicate that enterprise-level characteristics remain important even when national regulatory conditions are broadly comparable, and suggest that policies aimed at strengthening enterprise capacity and digital infrastructure are more likely to narrow this gap.

Sectoral Differences in AI Adoption and Balanced Scorecard Application: Evidence from Enterprises in the Czech Republic

It is suggested that AI integration is increasingly a cross-sectoral strategic phenomenon, while adoption barriers remain context-dependent, and that AI support initiatives should combine broad cross-sectoral measures with targeted interventions addressing sector-specific obstacles.

Consumer Online Shopping Adoption and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ E-Sales Participation in the European Union: A Longitudinal Alignment Analysis, 2015–2024

Buying online has become ordinary behaviour for European consumers, yet selling online remains a minority practice among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study asks whether the two have developed in step within countries. Using Eurostat household and enterprise ICT survey data for the EU-27 from 2015 to...

ESG Score and Firm Value: The Role of the Institutional Context—A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the European Union

The relationship between ESG performance and firm value is contested and appears to depend on context. This study asks whether that relationship differs between the United States and the European Union, two mature markets that differ primarily in the extent to which sustainability disclosure is mandated. Firm fixed-eff...

Technology transfer and innovation dynamics through clustering analysis of European Union countries

From AI Policy to Corporate Strategic Change: Evidence on Firm-Size Heterogeneity from China’s AI Pilot Zones

Artificial intelligence (AI) pilot-zone policies aim to expand firms’ technological opportunities, yet their relationship with changes in internal resource allocation remains unclear. Using 15,989 firm-year observations from 2377 nonfinancial Chinese A-share listed firms during 2016–2024, this study employs the Callawa...