As a strategic emerging technology, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a significant role in guiding future societal transformation and has an empowering effect to help enterprises realize disruptive innovation. However, there is still a lack of in-depth analysis of the key elements and mechanisms of AI empowering enterprises to realize disruptive innovation in academia. The impact path of AI-empowered disruptive innovation for enterprises remains unknown. The exploratory multi-case study method based on Grounded Theory was applied to construct a theoretical model of AI empowering enterprises to realize disruptive innovation, and the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method was employed to explore the complex causal mechanism of AI empowering disruptive innovation in enterprises. The results highlight that five key factors for achieving AI-driven disruptive innovation in enterprises are service ecology, cooperation network, technological transition, context-depth-excavation, and organizational structure innovation. Among the five factors, technological transition is a necessary condition for AI to empower disruptive innovation in enterprises. There are three types and four paths of AI empowering disruptive innovation in enterprises including“technology-service ecology type”, “technology-scene-structural innovation type” and “technology-cooperation network type”. The results provide decision-making references for enterprises on selecting an AI empowerment path to drive disruptive innovation based on their unique circumstances.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |