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Record W4415591671 · doi:10.1177/10564926251389875

Free and Unmerited: The Unappreciated Organizing Power of Grace

2025· article· en· W4415591671 on OpenAlexaff
Kylie Heales

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Management Inquiry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicReligion, Gender, and Enlightenment
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScholarshipObligationConstruct (python library)AccountabilityPower (physics)Norm (philosophy)Social exchange theory

Abstract

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Grace, an unconditional and voluntary gift in the presence of unmet expectations, is often associated with theology yet pervades everyday life. Despite its ubiquity, management scholarship is quiet on understanding how grace shapes organizational relationships and outcomes. This article positions grace as a promising construct for management scholarship across entrepreneurship, strategic decision-making, organizational relationships, and institutional dynamics. I begin by articulating the three constitutive conditions of grace: social construction requiring undeserving recipients and unobligated givers, presence of unmet expectations, and absence of obligation by the giver. Next, I demonstrate how grace operates through institutional, exchange, and relational organizing processes that enable temporary norm deviations, transcend traditional exchange logics, and redistribute power to facilitate relationship renegotiation. Finally, I propose promising research directions that illuminate how actors navigate tensions between accountability and flexibility. This research agenda has potential to enhance the interactions and relationships between people, organizations and institutions.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.308
Threshold uncertainty score0.255

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.031
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.223 · 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 teacher head, 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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