Public and private value creation using artificial intelligence

Public and private value creation using artificial intelligence: An empirical study of AI voice robot users in Chinese public sector

Wang, Changlin (Henan University of Economics and Law)
Teo, Thompson S.H. (National University of Singapore)
Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)

2021

Despite significant theoretical and empirical attention on public value creation in the public sector, the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) use and value creation from the citizen perspective remains poorly understood. We ground our study in Moore's public value management to examine the relationship between AI use and value creation. We conceptually categorize public service value into public value and private value. We use procedural justice and trust in government as indicators of public value and, based on motivation theory, we use perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment as indicators of private value. A field survey of 492 AI voice robot users in China was conducted to test our model. The results indicated that the effective use of AI voice robots was significantly associated with private value and procedural justice. However, the relationship between the effective use of AI and trust in government was not found to be significant. Surprisingly, the respondents indicated that private value had a greater effect on overall value creation than public value. This contrasts with the common idea that value creation from the government perspective suggests that social objectives requiring public value are more important to citizens. The results also show that gender and citizens with different experiences show different AI usage behaviors.

Artificial intelligence
Private value
Public value
Value creation
Voice robot

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6febb710-4c1b-4102-9bd6-46ba207f6415

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102401

2022-02-09

0268-4012

International Journal of Information Management, 61

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