Middle Managers' Sensemaking and Interorganizational Change Initiation: Translation Spaces and Editing Practices
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Abstract
In fast changing environments, middle managers regularly have to participate in interorganizational sensemaking work in order to deal with issues of industry-wide significance. The research is grounded on an empirical study of a cross-sector study group, bringing together middle managers from five large French public works and civil engineering firms who are examining issues related to the adoption of a shared digital mock-up that will reconfigure the sector. The article identifies four translation spaces in which these middle managers make sense of this design technology through a set of editing practices. The article ends by discussing the dynamic of these translation spaces and the need to better understand middle managers' editing practices when they are making sense of change across organizational boundaries.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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