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Research Case: Why does a founding state become strong not only through bloodline legitimacy, but through a structure that incorporates outsiders?

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A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why does a founding state become strong not only through bloodline legitimacy, but through a structure that incorporates outsiders? 2. Abstract A founding state becomes strong not only through bloodline legitimacy, but through a structure that incorporates outsiders, because the highest priority … Read more

Research Case: Why must a founding community prioritize population growth and integration capacity over purity?

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A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why must a founding community prioritize population growth and integration capacity over purity? 2. Abstract A founding community must prioritize population growth and integration capacity over purity, such as bloodline purity or origin-based purity, because the first task of a founding state … Read more

Research Case: How Should the Politics of the Founding Phase Be Treated in OS Organizational Design Theory?

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A Problem Setting for Connecting Zhenguan Zhengyao to Machiavelli 1. Question In OS Organizational Design Theory, Zhenguan Zhengyao is treated as an important foundational text for the principles of politics in the preservation phase. Then how should the politics of the founding phase be treated? 2. Abstract Emperor Taizong of Tang, who became the model … Read more

Research Case: Why Can the People’s Support Not Be Gained by Coercive Methods, but Only by the Ruler’s Virtue?

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A Structural Analysis of Governing Popular Sentiment in Zhenguan Zhengyao 1. Question Why can the people’s support not be gained by coercive methods, and why must governance be based on the ruler’s virtue? 2. Abstract In Zhenguan Zhengyao, Emperor Taizong discusses the governance of the people with his senior ministers. In these discussions, it is … Read more

Research Case: Why Is Preservation More Difficult than Founding?

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The Shift from External Control to Internal Control in Zhenguan Zhengyao 1. Question Why does preservation become more difficult than founding? 2. Abstract In Zhenguan Zhengyao, Emperor Taizong asks his senior ministers which is more difficult: founding or preservation. Fang Xuanling, who shared the hardships of the founding period with Taizong, answers, “founding.” Wei Zheng, … Read more

Research Case: Can Virtue Be Understood Only as an Ethical Concept, or Can It Also Function as a Control Variable in a Governance System?

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The Structural Function of “Virtue” in Zhenguan Zhengyao 1. Question Can virtue be understood only as an ethical concept, or can it also be understood as a control variable that stabilizes a governance system? 2. Abstract In Zhenguan Zhengyao, Emperor Taizong considered virtue to be as necessary as talent for governance in the preservation phase. … Read more

Research Case: Why the Exclusion of Personnel Makes an Organization Rigid and Ultimately Leads to Collapse

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The Structure of Loyal-Minister Exclusion and Organizational Rigidity in Zhenguan Zhengyao 1. Question Why do exclusionary personnel decisions make an organization rigid and ultimately lead it to collapse? 2. Abstract For a state or an organization, human talent is originally one of its most important resources. Even so, when we look back at history, there … Read more

Research Case: Why Peace Can Trigger the Deterioration of a State or Organization

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A Structural Crisis of the Preservation Phase in Zhenguan Zhengyao 1. Question Why can “peace,” although it is originally the most desirable condition, become a trigger for the deterioration of a state or an organization? 2. Abstract In a state or an organization, peace is usually regarded as the most desirable condition. When war and … Read more

Research Case: Why Organizations Remain Stable Not Through Arbitrary Rule but Through a Deliberative System of Cognitive Correction

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A Self-Correcting Structure of Governance in Zhenguan Zhengyao 1. Question Why do organizations remain stable not through arbitrary rule, but through a deliberative system of cognitive correction? 2. Abstract In organizations, it is often said that the ideal leader is one who judges everything, decides everything, and directs everything alone. However, all human beings make … Read more

Research Case: Why Rewards and Punishments Maintain an Organization

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A Structural Analysis of Personnel Evaluation in Zhenguan Zhengyao 1. Question Why do rewards and punishments serve as a device by which the OS, a decision-making governing institution, maintains itself? 2. Abstract In an organization, personnel evaluation, rewards, and punishments are not merely matters of human resource administration. Whom the organization rewards, whom it punishes, … Read more