The Unstated Ontology of the Business Case Study: Listening for Indigenous Voices in Business School Curricula
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Abstract
In this work, we examine how business case studies can support decolonial Indigenization efforts in business schools. Through our inductive analysis of business case studies from top publishers in this area (Harvard Business Publishing and Ivey Publishing), we identify a set of ontological assumptions that undergird the construction of traditional, Western business case studies and ultimately undermine Indigenous ways of knowing and organizing. Specifically, we find that the case studies stem from an uncritical Western ontology, particularly in relation to the construct of “development,” which diminishes the positionality of Indigenous Peoples in our own stories. We demonstrate how case studies can support decolonial Indigenization by crafting them in ways that uphold Indigenous ontologies. Finally, we uncover how a reconsideration of case writer positionality, Indigenous “voice” in business education, and Indigenous conceptions of development can enable case crafting in service of decolonial Indigenization.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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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