Social organization identity: the benefits of ambiguity
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, how Stella’s Circle, in St. John’s, Canada, a large, long-lived, social organization providing diverse services, created an enduring crisis-free identity. Design/methodology/approach Data from 13 semi-structured interviews and document review was used to examine the organization’s relationships with its many stakeholders. Findings Serendipitously, nuanced communication with elements of both ambiguity and clarity, enabled the organization to establish an enduring, crisis-free identity. To achieve this successful balance, the organization used powerful, yet ambiguous, words and labels coupled with customized narratives to manage stakeholder identity perceptions. Practical implications Understanding the nuances of this organization’s communication can assist other social organizations create and manage a crisis free identity. Originality/value Besides being the first-time, the tension between identity ambiguity and clarity has been scrutinized in this context. This work argues that social constructivist identity theory can be, beneficially, cross-pollinated with the concept of strategic ambiguity from communication theory to develop a fuller understanding of successful social organization identity management.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it