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Employees' capability to update their AI application portfolios significantly enhances their creativity, a relationship that is mediated by intellectual capital and positively moderated by ambidextrous leadership. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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The study aims to explore how employees' abilities to update AI application portfolios impact their creativity, emphasizing the roles of intellectual capital and ambidextrous leadership.

May 17, 2026Journal of Intellectual Capital

AI application portfolio update capabilities and employee creativity: the role of intellectual capital and ambidextrous leadership

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CLChaolin Lyu PWPengyu Wan HDHanghang Dong

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Randomized trial investigates AI updates and employee creativity in China's smart manufacturing sector, suggesting leadership roles are crucial.

Key Points

The study aims to explore how employees' abilities to update AI application portfolios impact their creativity, emphasizing the roles of intellectual capital and ambidextrous leadership.
Three-wave longitudinal survey with 307 valid responses from employees
Conducted at 1.5-month intervals in China's Yangtze River Delta smart manufacturing sector
Utilized structural equation modeling for mediation and hierarchical regression for moderation analysis.
Updating AI application portfolios significantly boosts employee creativity (exact quantitative metrics not provided).
Intellectual capital dimensions (renewal, structural, human) partially mediate this relationship.
Ambidextrous leadership positively moderates the impact of AI updates on creativity.

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Lyu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a095bef7880e6d24efe1e3b https://doi.org/10.1108/jic-10-2025-0443

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May 17, 2026Journal of Intellectual Capital

AI application portfolio update capabilities and employee creativity: the role of intellectual capital and ambidextrous leadership

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Authors

CLChaolin Lyu PWPengyu Wan HDHanghang Dong

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Overview

Randomized trial investigates AI updates and employee creativity in China's smart manufacturing sector, suggesting leadership roles are crucial.

Key Points

The study aims to explore how employees' abilities to update AI application portfolios impact their creativity, emphasizing the roles of intellectual capital and ambidextrous leadership.
Three-wave longitudinal survey with 307 valid responses from employees
Conducted at 1.5-month intervals in China's Yangtze River Delta smart manufacturing sector
Utilized structural equation modeling for mediation and hierarchical regression for moderation analysis.
Updating AI application portfolios significantly boosts employee creativity (exact quantitative metrics not provided).
Intellectual capital dimensions (renewal, structural, human) partially mediate this relationship.
Ambidextrous leadership positively moderates the impact of AI updates on creativity.

Cite This Study

Lyu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a095bef7880e6d24efe1e3b https://doi.org/10.1108/jic-10-2025-0443

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