Claim LD03-SL-C19 (v1.0)
Reviewing evidence on computers, Brynjolfsson and Hitt argue that organizational investments, such as new work practices, strongly shape the value of information-technology investments, and that the benefits are often intangible and hard to measure.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- Interpretation
- Publication status
- Eligible for publication, with a qualifier
- Verification state
- Checked against the abstract of the primary source only. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
- Does not license
- Any estimate for generative AI
- Limitations
- Checked against the official abstract only, read in the Crossref record on 15 October 2026; evidence from an earlier technology
- Source (as cited)
- Brynjolfsson & Hitt, “Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4), 2000
- Source type
- Peer-reviewed journal article (recorded as “Peer-reviewed journal article”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic
- Maturity of the evidence
- Mature evidence
- Recorded date
- 15 October 2026
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.
Sources this version cites
Version
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This pinned version is also the current version.
Raw record: every recorded field, with its coded values
All 25 canonical Claim fields, verbatim, with the coded values derived from them. The plain-language labels above are read from these.
- Claim type (coded)
- INTERPRETATION (as printed: “INTERPRETATION”)
- Publication status (coded)
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state (coded)
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (ABSTRACT_ONLY)
- Source type (coded)
- PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE
- Maturity (coded)
- MATURE
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD03-SL-C19 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Reviewing evidence on computers, Brynjolfsson and Hitt argue that organizational investments, such as new work practices, strongly shape the value of information-technology investments, and that the benefits are often intangible and hard to measure. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | INTERPRETATION | base_types: INTERPRETATION |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | D — Aggregate estimates and theory | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | MATURE | states: MATURE |
| 6 | SOURCE | Brynjolfsson & Hitt, “Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4), 2000 | source_ids: SRC-SL-BRYNJOLFSSON-HITT-JEP-2000 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed journal article | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Firms adopting computers, mainly in the US, before 2000 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Review of firm-level studies and case evidence | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Prior studies | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Computers (pre-generative AI) | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | None | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Organizational investments have a large influence on the value of IT investments; benefits are often intangible and disproportionately difficult to measure | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Why the returns to a technology depend on complementary organizational change | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Any estimate for generative AI | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: ABSTRACT_ONLY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Checked against the official abstract only, read in the Crossref record on 15 October 2026; evidence from an earlier technology | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | The firm-level counterpart of the productivity J-curve | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-03, D2 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Generative-AI evidence that returns do not depend on complementary change | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-03 (LIVING_DEBATE); D2 (DOMAIN)
The sources as recorded, with their record IDs and coded source types:
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Brynjolfsson & Hitt, “Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4), 2000” → Brynjolfsson & Hitt (2000), “Beyond Computation…” (SRC-SL-BRYNJOLFSSON-HITT-JEP-2000--v1.0) — Brynjolfsson & Hitt, “Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4), 2000; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Cite this page
SocioLens project. (2026, October 15). Reviewing evidence on computers, Brynjolfsson and Hitt argue that organizational investments, such as new work practices, strongly shape the value of information-technology investments, and that the benefits are often intangible and hard to measure [Claim LD03-SL-C19, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld03-sl-c19/v1.0/
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title = {Reviewing evidence on computers, Brynjolfsson and Hitt argue that organizational investments, such as new work practices, strongly shape the value of information-technology investments, and that the benefits are often intangible and hard to measure.},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
howpublished = {\url{https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld03-sl-c19/v1.0/}},
note = {Claim LD03-SL-C19, version v1.0}
}The link points to this version, whose record never changes. For a finding, cite the original study as well: SocioLens summarizes research and does not replace it.
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 1b94c52b7ca73104b4f4f6ffda1c999a0df5d7abd37a2277e7d505dbca1b187b.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C19 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-03 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-03 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 19 — LD03-SL-C19” SHA-256
b50f6fdf0eef1fc4ab7c19ac0675e6c21e78c7b468abea6575032e5d37647814; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD03-SL-C19--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C19 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-03 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C19 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-03 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-03 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-BRYNJOLFSSON-HITT-JEP-2000--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 19 — LD03-SL-C19 cites "Brynjolfsson & Hitt, “Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4), 2000"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-BRYNJOLFSSON-HITT-JEP-2000--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Brynjolfsson & Hitt, “Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4), 2000".