 From Learning to Execution: Completing the Architecture of Institutional ActionRoshan Ghadamian
IRSA Working Papers from Institute for Regenerative Systems Architecture Abstract: Institutions fail to act on what they know. This is usually attributed to political constraint, resource scarcity or weak leadership — explanations that identify obstacles without explaining why the obstacles are encountered at the same points across otherwise unrelated institutions. This paper argues that institutional action is a path, not a handoff, and that it traverses four architectures: learning, which determines whether an institution can know; commitment, which determines whether what it promises constrains it; enforcement, which determines whether the constraint has teeth; and regeneration, which determines whether the resulting capacity survives. Failure enters at the seams between these, not inside them — and we identify four such decouplings, each with a distinct signature and each producing a characteristic cascade. The practical implication is a shift from outcome evaluation to structural diagnosis. An institution's capacity to act is determinable from the integrity of its seams, in advance of the outcome, and this explains a persistent puzzle: why more data so rarely fixes action failure. Keywords: institutional action; failure cascades; decoupling; learning; commitment; enforcement; regeneration (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:evk:wpaper:cea-lte Access Statistics for this paper More papers in IRSA Working Papers from Institute for Regenerative Systems Architecture |
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