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Abstract
Reviewed by: Narratives we organize by ed. by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi Marco Shappeck Narratives we organize by. Ed. by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi. (Advances in organization studies 11.) Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. 275. ISBN 1588113930. $77.95. This book, the eleventh volume in the ‘Advances in organization studies’ series, is a product of papers presented at the seventeenth EGOS conference in Lyon, France, in 2001. Organizational discourses in this volume are viewed through the lens of narratology, contributing to the body of literature that theorizes about the social sources and consequences of structure in organizations. Out of this work comes an evolved system of interpretation for organizing processes and forms. Analyzing business communication through a structuralist approach, Anne-Marie Søderberg’s contribution, ‘Sensegiving and sensemaking in an integration process’, looks at how top and middle managers structure narratives for their employees after an international acquisition by another company and how these sensegiving attempts are understood by the addressees in their local contexts. In ‘Narrative institutions we organize by’, Daniel Robichaud describes the inherent structure and recursivity of institutionalized narratives and the roles that were transformed during a Canadian municipal meeting between elected officials and the citizens of the city. From a poststructuralist perspective, Nanette Monin and John Monin’s chapter, ‘Re-navigating management theory’, contrasts Mary Parker Follet’s hero-less narrative paradigm from other manager-as-protagonist theories in managerial texts. In ‘The body of the text and the ordinary narratives of organization’, Heather Höpfl accentuates the interplay and distinctions between authoritative versus vernacular texts. Valérie-Inés de La Ville and Eléonore Mounoud, in ‘How can strategy be a practice?’, explore the links between practice and strategy by drawing on Michel de Certeau’s practice-oriented view of strategic management. Hervé Corvellec (‘Narratives of organizational performance’) continues with a genre analysis by examining the number of applied definitions of organizational performance and offering a particular redefinition that accounts for the socially motivated language of organizational achievement. Paul M. Hirsch and Hayagreeva Rao, in ‘The Schweik syndrome’, describe the economic outcomes of the Czech Republic in the new markets of the West since 1989. Gerardo Patriotta, in ‘Detective stories and the narrative structure of organizing’, investigates specific organizing processes of workers who, when passing blame in the factory, construct certain events in a manner that parallels detective stories. David Metz, in ‘From naked emperor to count zero’, looks at the working lives of IT-freelancers and how genres of romance, urban legend, and folklore help construct identities through narrative. In ‘Narrating the future of intelligent machines’, Brian Bloomfield analyzes the interactions with HAL 9000 from the film 2001: A space odyssey and discusses the ways in which narratives influence our perception of the relationship between humans and computers. Sudi Sharifi (‘Ticking times and side cupboards …’) writes a self-reflective, descriptive essay about her experience as a patient in a hospital. In ‘Fluid tales’, Robert Grafton Small reflects on selfhood and identity while narrating experiences he had presenting his work at an academic conference. The essays in this volume represent the state of the art in organizational theory and narratology. The insights offered by these authors will prove indispensable for future research that deals with the social dimensions of managerial discourse and organizational change. Marco Shappeck University of Illinois Copyright © 2007 Linguistic Society of America
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.019 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".