OS Organizational Design Theory

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

Research Case | At What Point Is Decision-Critical Information Blocked in an Organization, and When Does It Become Irreversible?

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1. Question At what point is the information needed for decision-making blocked in an organization, and at what moment does that process become irreversible? 2. Abstract In any organization, the governing body—management in a company, or what this theory calls the OS—needs not only external information but also internal information in order to make sound … Read more

Research Case | Why the Success or Failure of Governance Depends Not on Institutions but on the Awareness of Those Who Operate Them

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1. Question Why does the success or failure of governance depend not on the formal design of institutions themselves, but on the awareness of the actors who operate them? 2. Abstract A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) reading of Zhenguan Zhengyao shows that the success or failure of state governance is not determined simply by whether institutions … Read more

Research Case | Why Explain Organizational Theory Through IT Architecture?

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A Method for Translating Zhenguan Zhengyao into Modern Organizational Theory 1. Question What kind of abstraction is necessary to translate Zhenguan Zhengyao, a classic of Eastern statecraft, into modern organizational theory? 2. Research Abstract Zhenguan Zhengyao is a record of the words and actions of Emperor Taizong of Tang (Li Shimin), the second emperor of … Read more

Research Case | Forced Promises, Good Faith, and OS Health

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1. Core Question Is Machiavelli’s proposition — “forced promises do not need to be kept” — really correct? 2. Abstract In Chapter 42 of Book III of Discourses, Machiavelli presents the proposition that forced promises do not need to be kept.However, a promise is not merely a spoken statement. It is the visible form of … Read more

Research Notes No.105 | Correction Builds Human Growth: A Personal Growth Model from the Perspective of OS Organizational Design Theory

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1. Problem Awareness What is personal growth? At first glance, this question appears simple. In reality, however, it is not easy to define. In general, growth is often understood as the accumulation of success, the overcoming of hardship, or the mere passage of time through experience. Yet actual life does not support such a simple … Read more

Research Notes No.103 | Can Macroeconomics (External Control) and OS Organizational Design Theory (Internal Control) Coexist?

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— Complementary theories at different control layers — Abstract This note argues that macroeconomics and OS Organizational Design Theory are not rival frameworks. They operate at different control layers: macroeconomics adjusts external conditions (interest rates, money supply, fiscal spending), while OS Organizational Design Theory governs internal control (recognition, information architecture, incentives, and civic capacity). The … Read more