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Record W1982052673 · doi:10.1177/1056492610369864

Commentary on “Appreciative Inquiry as a Shadow Process”

2010· article· en· W1982052673 on OpenAlexaff
Gervase R. Bushe

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Management Inquiry · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicAppreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAppreciative inquiryContingencyShadow (psychology)ScholarshipAffect (linguistics)EpistemologyTransformational leadershipSociologyProcess (computing)Social psychologyPsychologyPsychoanalysisPolitical sciencePhilosophyLawComputer science

Abstract

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Fitzgerald, Oliver & Hoaxey’s paper, in my opinion, is the finest critique yet written on appreciate inquiry. They help us to think deeply and avoid simplistic notions of “positive” and “negative”, reminding us that holding too tightly to decontextualized assertions of what is positive can get in the way of the very things AI aspires to do. I comment on how AI’s original intent of studying the “life giving properties” of social systems got translated into studying “the positive”. The paper also offers a new contingency for understanding why AI succeeds or fails: the extent to which dreams, aspirations and expression of positive affect are censored by the organization. I question whether all transformational change processes are inherently counter cultural and if so, would AI be useful in a positively deviant organization. Finally, the paper reminds us that superb scholarship on organizational change is most likely to come from those fully engaged in the practice of it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.023
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.104
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.069
Threshold uncertainty score0.123

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0230.104
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0210.042
Scholarly communication0.0140.016
Open science0.0110.008
Research integrity0.0690.075
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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