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This creates an urgent tension: data infrastructures can improve coordination and monitoring while obscuring how data are collected, interpreted, challenged, and audited, raising risks for trust, perceived fairness, voice, and cross-functional cooperation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Building on this tension and prior research that emphasizes responsible AI principles more than organizational evidence, this study examines whether employee-informed and disclosure-visible responsible workplace data governance is associated with organizational performance and whether governance friction, organizational learning, and technical complexity shape this association.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using 519 employee questionnaires from listed firms, five dimensions, and 19 indicators, this study builds a governance index and applies annual-report scoring to Chinese A-share non-financial firms from 2011 to 2023.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Two-way fixed effects estimates show that higher visible responsible workplace data governance is positively associated with ROA; a one-standard-deviation increase in the index corresponds to a 0.49 percentage point higher ROA, equal to 13.2% of the sample mean. 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