Tao thesis gap sweep

4 evidence shelves for Tao's thesis (international element). Built 2026-10-26 20:39 on the Mac mini · page reloads every 30 s, data every ~1 min.
15,759papers found
15,630screened
7,538kept
2,743kept · culture / intl
23kept · Thai / SEA
3,604 / 7,538kept papers on disk (47%)

How we got here

156ideas in Ajarn's bank
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8groups with an intl hook
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8fast scans
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4shelves swept
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2-3thesis options (17:30)
Why these 4 shelves

Rule: Tao's thesis must have an international element (Ajarn, meeting 22 Oct): expats, foreigners, Thai people with international experience, or culture as a moderator. Career / JVB welcome.

156 → 8 groups. Every idea read. Left out: 13 review / book / teaching ideas (not a thesis design) and ~27 one-off curiosities (no literature thread). The rest became 8 groups, each with an international hook.

8 scans. One Claude agent per group: review seeds, coverage counts, gaps. Thai share of every field is under 1%. Self-scores did not separate the groups, so we chose on five tests: natural international angle · thin Thai evidence · review papers exist to seed a sweep · not already a Lab shelf · data reachable in ~12 months.

GroupDecisionReason
1 Feedback + 3 360 self-otherShelf A (merged)Same theory, Ajarn's strongest stream. Cho 2023 (JAP) found no East Asian modesty bias; Thailand never tested. Lab 360 data may help.
2 Leader identityShelf BNo cross-cultural review exists; Thai identity-formation studies ≈ 0. Hook: study abroad.
8 CareerShelf CAjarn named JVB. "Career adaptability AND Thailand" = 0. Hook: expats, why foreign vs Thai staff stay.
4 Followers + 5 Thai normsShelf D (merged)Same mechanism. No review codes culture for implicit leadership or romance of leadership.
6 Online / chatDroppedNo review exists for the LINE / chat part, so a citation sweep pays little. Better as a direct study.
7 Meaning, passionDroppedLowest score, scattered ideas, no culture × passion review. Equanimity (อุเบกขา) idea kept for later.

Seeds sharpened. 4 more agents searched each shelf in rounds, learned the field's own words (face, kreng jai, guanxi, modesty), and found newer reviews. 14 seeds each. Generic culture reviews dropped to stop drift.

The 4 shelves

Career + transitions (JVB)

stopped
3243found
3727screened
2503kept
1098kept · intl
10kept · Thai/SEA
keep borderline drop waiting
seeds expandedround 1
written to record, last 10 min0
on disk / kept1197 / 2503 (47%)
got via free · Sci-Hub160 · 1117
tried, not found yet1267
not tried yet39
read into drafts today2
screened per 10 min15:00: 48415:20: 54115:50: 120216:20: 1500

Feedback + 360 across cultures

stopped
5358found
4798screened
1578kept
494kept · intl
5kept · Thai/SEA
keep borderline drop waiting
seeds expandedround 2
written to record, last 10 min0
on disk / kept916 / 1578 (58%)
got via free · Sci-Hub100 · 862
tried, not found yet575
not tried yet87
read into drafts today2
screened per 10 min15:20: 77715:30: 55415:40: 53016:20: 67116:30: 55716:50: 45417:00: 39517:10: 43117:20: 429

Leader identity + intl experience

sweeping
3598found
3494screened
1737kept
529kept · intl
3kept · Thai/SEA
keep borderline drop waiting
seeds expandedround 1
written to record, last 10 min0
on disk / kept686 / 1737 (39%)
got via free · Sci-Hub72 · 589
tried, not found yet917
not tried yet134
read into drafts today0
screened per 10 min15:20: 62715:50: 131116:00: 49916:40: 1057

Follower views + Thai norms

stopped
3560found
3611screened
1720kept
622kept · intl
5kept · Thai/SEA
keep borderline drop waiting
seeds expandedround 2
written to record, last 10 min0
on disk / kept805 / 1720 (46%)
got via free · Sci-Hub109 · 729
tried, not found yet703
not tried yet212
read into drafts today0
screened per 10 min15:00: 43915:30: 49915:40: 79316:10: 40616:20: 35316:40: 55617:00: 565

Machine and money

$0.00OpenAlex prepaid used (cap $2 + free $1)
$0.51OpenAlex free left today
18MiniMax calls, last 10 min
3.7MiniMax calls in flight (est.)
31%mini memory free
runningdownload + read loop
not signed inChula library

Download routes (kept papers, unique)

RouteStatusGot
1. Free open-access copyrunning441
2. Sci-Hubidle3,297
3. Anna's Archivenot wired into the loop0
4. Chula library (EBSCO)not signed in0
Total on disktried, not found yet: 3,462 · not tried yet: 4723,604 of 7,538

Details

Career + transitions (JVB): top kept papers with a culture / international angle
  1. 10Will they stay or will they go? The role of job embeddedness in predicting turnover in individualistic and collectivistiunclear
  2. 10What's culture got to do with it? Examining job embeddedness and organizational commitment and turnover intentions in Sounclear
  3. 10Embeddedness across contexts: A two‐country study on the additive and buffering effects of job embeddedness on employeeunclear
  4. 10THA Meta-Analytic Review of Job Embeddedness and Turnover Intention: Evidence from South-East Asiameta-analysis
  5. 10Reactive Adjustment or Proactive Embedding? Multistudy, Multiwave Evidence for Dual Pathways to Expatriate Retentionlongitudinal
  6. 10Using job embeddedness factors to explain voluntary turnover in four European countriesunclear
  7. 10Will I Stay or Will I Go? Explaining Repatriation by Self-Initiated Expatriatesunclear
  8. 10Development of a global measure of job embeddedness and integration into a traditional model of voluntary turnover.unclear
  9. 10The influence of expatriate cultural intelligence on organizational embeddedness and knowledge sharing: The moderating eunclear
  10. 10Work-home and home-work conflict and voluntary turnover: A conservation of resources explanation for contrasting moderatunclear
  11. 10A Framework of Facilitators and Barriers to Career Adaptability: Migrant Hotel Workers During COVID-19unclear
  12. 10SIE identity strain, job embeddedness and expatriate outcomes: within-domain and spillover buffering effects of off-the-unclear
  13. 10Self-initiated expatriates' cultural intelligence, embeddedness and career satisfaction: a whole-life perspectiveunclear
  14. 10Faculty’ Turnover Intention in Vietnamese Public Universities: The Impact of Leader-Member Exchange, Psychological Safetunclear
  15. 10Fostering assigned expatriates' thriving at work through cultural intelligence and local embeddedness: The role of relatunclear
Feedback + 360 across cultures: top kept papers with a culture / international angle
  1. 10Cultural Differences in Newcomer Feedback Seeking: A Comparison of the United States and Hong Kongunclear
  2. 10Determinants of the feedback-seeking behaviour of subsidiary top managers in multinational corporationsunclear
  3. 10Examination of a Perceived Cost Model of Employees’ Negative Feedback-Seeking Behaviorunclear
  4. 10Feedback orientation, feedback culture, and the longitudinal performance management processlongitudinal
  5. 10Cultural Differences in the Motivation to Seek Performance Feedback: A Comparative Policy-Capturing Studyunclear
  6. 10Authentic leadership and feedback-seeking behaviour: An examination of the cultural context of mediating processes in Chunclear
  7. 10Leading by Example: Supervisor Downward Feedback Seeking, Power Distance, and the Implications for the Feedback Environmunclear
  8. 10A theoretical analysis of the implications of self-determination theory in explaining the effectiveness of feedback-seekunclear
  9. 10The relationship between feedback orientation, feedback seeking climate and behaviour: evidence from Chinese postgraduatunclear
  10. 10Culture, motivation, and feedback-seeking behaviors: Test of a mediated modelunclear
  11. 10Feedback-seeking behavior within multinational corporationsunclear
  12. 10Modeling chinese high school EFL writers’ language mindsets, goal orientations, and feedback-seeking behavior: the interunclear
  13. 10Leaders’ Expressed Humility and Followers’ Feedback Seeking: The Mediating Effects of Perceived Image Cost and Moderatinunclear
  14. 10Feedback-seeking culture moderates the relationship between positive feedback and task performanceunclear
  15. 10High-Power Distance Is Not Always Bad: Ethical Leadership Results in Feedback Seekingunclear
Leader identity + intl experience: top kept papers with a culture / international angle
  1. 10How emotionally intelligent individuals become leaders: the crucial roles of vertical and horizontal exchange in collectunclear
  2. 10Predicting leadership emergence in global virtual teams: machine learning applications in algorithmic HRMunclear
  3. 10A discursive analysis of the in situ construction of (Japanese) leadership and leader identity in a research interview.qualitative
  4. 10Being a Leader and Doing Leadership: The Cross-domain Impact of Family and Friends on Leader Identity and Leader Behaviounclear
  5. 10Investigating collective memory in the enactment of Māori leadership identities Ko te kōputu pūmahara hei whakatinana iunclear
  6. 10What motivates narcissistic individuals to lead? The role of identity across culturesunclear
  7. 10Implicit leadership in an intercultural context: theory extension and empirical investigationunclear
  8. 10Understanding cultures and implicit leadership theories across the globe: an introduction to project GLOBEreview
  9. 10Chinese Implicit Leadership Theorytheory
  10. 10A two-nation investigation of leadership self-perceptions and motivation to lead in early adulthood: the moderating roleunclear
  11. 10How does collective leadership emerge? A dual-process theory formalized using agent-based modelingtheory
  12. 10Relating Cultural Distance to Self-Other Agreement of Leader–Observer Dyads: The Role of Hierarchical Positionunclear
  13. 10Global work and leadership identity development: a narrative inquiry studyqualitative
  14. 10Claimed but not granted: authorization asymmetry and the intersectional invisibility of foreign women in Japanunclear
  15. 10Trait Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Self-Efficacy: Their Relationship with Collective Efficacyunclear
Follower views + Thai norms: top kept papers with a culture / international angle
  1. 10Leader–member exchange (LMX) and culture: A meta-analysis of correlates of LMX across 23 countries.meta-analysis
  2. 10Implicit leadership in an intercultural context: theory extension and empirical investigationunclear
  3. 10Cross-cultural comparison of leadership prototypesunclear
  4. 10Understanding cultures and implicit leadership theories across the globe: an introduction to project GLOBEreview
  5. 10Chinese Implicit Leadership Theorytheory
  6. 10Cultural variation of leadership prototypes across 22 European countriesunclear
  7. 10An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadeunclear
  8. 10School culture and creativity-fostering teacher behavior: The mediating role of implicit leadership theories and the modunclear
  9. 10Who is an Ideal Organizational Leader in Iran? Examining the Content, Structure, and Consequences of Iranian Implicit Leunclear
  10. 10Character and Competence: A Prototype Analysis of Good Leadership in UK Businessunclear
  11. 10Examining the follower-related antecedents and effects of servant leadership in the PRC and Hong Kongunclear
  12. 10Chinese Guanxi : An Integrative Review and New Directions for Future Researchreview
  13. 10Paternalistic leadership in Chinese organizations: research progress and future research directionsreview
  14. 10Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Paternalistic Leadership: An Expansion of Leader-Member Exchange Theoryunclear
  15. 10Leader–member exchange (LMX), paternalism, and delegation in the Turkish business culture: An empirical investigationunclear

Screened, kept and found come from each sweep's live log. Culture and Thai tags and the paper lists come from the written record, which can trail. "Kept" = MiniMax M3 judged the abstract on-goal. A draft, not a read paper. Culture / Thai tags are word matches on title + screener reason.