A normative theory of organizational control: main and interaction effects of control modes on performance
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Abstract
The dominant model of organisation control was developed by Ouchi and his colleagues. It predictsthe choice among control modes as a function of the task context. It has two limitations. One is that itpredicts the choice of control modes but not the effect of those choices on performance. The other isthat it restricts that choice to a single control mode for a specific context and does not consider thechoice of a combination or portfolio of control modes, which the same literature frequently describesas practice. Here, contributing to control theory, these two limitations are addressed through thedevelopment of a more complete and complex normative model which includes interactions amongmodes and their effect on performance. This model has important implications for both the theory andpractice of outsourcing, IT project methodology and IT-based organisational transformation.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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