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Record W2517256091 · doi:10.5539/ells.v6n3p1

Discursive Strategies and the Maintenance of Legitimacy

2016· article· en· W2517256091 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Marc Hasbani, Gaëtan Breton

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language and Literature Studies · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicManagement and Organizational Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegitimacyConversationMandateSemioticsPublic relationsSociologyFrame (networking)Political scienceBusinessMedia studiesEpistemologyLawComputer scienceCommunicationTelecommunicationsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Any organization, to fulfill its mandate from the society, needs to have the legitimacy to use collective resources. Conferred almost automatically at the birth of the organization, it has to be maintained and even repaired when necessary. Legitimacy appears then as a conversation between the organization and the general public. Noticeably, this continuous conversation is sustained through the media and also through documents issued by the firm, particularly the annual report. The firms use discursive strategies to entertain their legitimacy. Using semiotic analysis in the frame of a multiple cases study (6 firms over 5 years), this paper isolates the different stories in the annual reports, including the images that are integrated parts of these narrations. We apply the semiotic instrument to these stories to deconstruct the content and expose the actor filling actantial roles. We found a substantial amount of stories (187 in 30 reports) containing the categories developed by Greimas & Bremond from the work of Propp, implying an intensive use of the report in the conversation maintaining legitimacy.

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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)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.037
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.066

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.037
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0060.003
Science and technology studies0.0080.067
Scholarly communication0.0160.013
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.209 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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