Vol 18, No 2 (2024)

What is the literature on AI missing for prompting engineering so far, and how good are these services at Societal Analysis and Future Predictions? A literature review and laboratory tests were conducted using different AI services.

This study provides an extensive list of research gaps based on an analysis of existing literature. Furthermore, it demonstrates that AI with well-crafted prompts performs as well as or better than senior intelligence analysts in Societal Analysis and Future Predictions. The literature and analysis make it clear that the role of the prompter, to ensure reliability, must be divided into two parts: Prompt Engineering and Information Quality Control (IQC), which in this context is distinct from Prompt Answer Engineering. This study also proposes a working process in the form of a model for using AI in information or intelligence gathering. Additionally, it outlines the rationale for why top managers’ salaries are likely to decrease as a result of these developments.

This research endeavors to elucidate the dynamics between Corporate Political Activity (CPA) and corporate investment by harnessing advanced econometric techniques, specifically quantile regression and dynamic panel data analysis. The empirical investigation encompasses a comprehensive dataset of 368 entities listed in Fortune World's Most Admired Companies spanning from 2016 to 2022. The empirical results illuminate the intricate relationship between CPA and corporate investment, indicating that firms engaging in politically strategic maneuvers typically demonstrate elevated investment rates in comparison to their counterparts devoid of such political strategization. Notably, this inquiry unveils a complex pattern, whereby CPA exerts a detrimental impact on corporate investment at superior quantiles (notably, the 80th and 90th percentiles), whereas an inverse effect is observed at the lower quantiles (specifically, the 10th and 20th percentiles). Furthermore, the analysis delineates an inverted V-shaped correlation between CPA and corporate investment, suggesting a nuanced interaction that varies across different levels of investment intensity. In examining firm-specific attributes, the influence of CPA on corporate investment appears to attenuate in entities characterized by substantial size and robust economic and technical prowess. Such firms exhibit diminished dependency on governmental support for their investment ventures, highlighting the differential impact of CPA based on firm-specific characteristics and strategic dispositions.

Increasing food prices, intensifying competition, and even the need for sustainable operations lead players in the food sector to innovative strategies. Food Loss and Waste (FLW) is a major issue, the solution for which could significantly contribute not only to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but through novel approaches to the competitiveness and financial success of said actors. FLW studies are often related to production, while the retailers have not been broadly researched. Food upcycling has been emerging as an innovative solution, to transfer food loss into marketable food products. The current study analyzes the surplus-based upcycled food products’ consumer acceptance and the competitive advantages that could be realized by the exploitation of this innovative approach. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, some of the essential product features could be observed based on academic publications. The upcycled food is not well-known. Individuals who are environmentally conscious most support this type of product. However, the low level of processing was seen as a desirable feature for everyone. Due to the low level of processing, technophobia should not hamper, but rather support the spread and use of surplus-based products. Similar to conventional food, taste, sensory appeal, and price are those characteristics that can influence consumers’ decision-making. Without a significant increase in marketing expenditures, innovative retailers can influence potential customer engagement through comprehensive and educational advertising. Offline presentations and trials are consistently more persuasive in involving customers, but the significance of online information sharing is equally important. These results imply that innovative businesses, by selling upcycled food, could realize competitive advantages from multiple sources while contributing to the SDGs.

Recent years have become a stress test for Russian innovative business due to increased internal and external barriers to development. In order to assess the adaptive capacity of firms and their readiness to continue innovation activities in times of crisis, this paper proposes an approach to identifying and systematizing the attitude and expectations of the business community toward the changing framework conditions for innovation. The innovation climate is measured as a set of 47 factors combined into eight groups: markets, competitive environment, material base, availability of human and financial resources, quality of infrastructure, government regulation, and social environment. The analysis is based on the results of a specialized survey of 1,121 high-tech manufacturing and service firms, conducted between January and March 2022. The results show that business perceptions of framework conditions for innovation and areas of inefficiency vary weakly across industries, but are strongly related to firms’ patterns of innovative behavior. Non-innovative firms are the most pessimistic in their assessments. The key barriers to innovation are related to the quality of government regulation and the availability of external financing. The results obtained allow for expanding the understanding of the peculiarities of business adaptation to external constraints and formulating some recommendations for innovation policy.