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Record W4415768087 · doi:10.55942/jebl.v5i5.605

Short-termism in social organizations

2025· article· W4415768087 on OpenAlexaff
Jafar El Armali

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Economics and Business Letters · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCommunity Development and Social Impact
Canadian institutionsThe King's UniversityWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial entrepreneurshipSocial organizationSocial economySocial changeFocus (optics)Sustainable developmentImpact investing

Abstract

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Social organizations, defined as social entrepreneurship and nonprofit organizations, aim to meet societal objectives and play an important role in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, social organizations may fall into short-termism, defined as favoring short-term goals over long-term objectives. This undermines social organizations’ ability to meet their long-term objectives and, in turn, negatively affects efforts to meet sustainable development goals. This note presents the channels that contribute to short-termism in social organizations. Three channels are presented and discussed herein. First, if investors and donors are short-term oriented, social organizations may focus on meeting short-term goals over long-term objectives to satisfy the demands of investors and donors and attract their funding. Second, if the management of a social organization is short-term oriented, it will be inclined to prioritize short-term goals over long-term objectives. Third, scaling up operations may result in neglecting the long-term objectives of social organizations. Understanding the roles of these channels is important for providing a better understanding of short-termism in social organizations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.176
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.211 · 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.

Study designObservational
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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