Family Business: Critical Commentary on an Established Socio-Spatial Explanatory Concept and the Example of Palestine
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the beginning of the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the prospects for a political settlement of the conflict have been seen in close connection with the economic situation. The PLO, as well as the donor countries, hoped to see the private sector become the main pillar of the emerging Palestinian economy, generally describing it as dominated by traditional businesses. The first part of this article connects family business—a concept well-established in the Western oriental sciences—to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism. The question is raised: which concept of space and culture supports the orientalist perspective and should consequently be avoided as the basis of the term family business? Taking a de-homogenized, de-essentialized and dynamic concept of space as a starting point, it is argued that companies in Palestine are socially defined as separate action-spaces that are structured by specific sets of norms in order to avoid some of the crucial problems of the...
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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 | 0.009 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.020 | 0.028 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".