Governing by transcendental values, ideals that everyone understands but no one can concretely attain, reduces members' motivation to probe the limits of acceptable behavior and therefore reduces the policing the organization must pay for.
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If the or- ganization is governed by transcendental values—ideals that everyone understands yet they can never practically attain or properly instantiate concretely—then people have less motivation to probe the limits of acceptable behavior. Less policing is then required
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, p. 5 https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192 · source PDF
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organizations whose governing ideals cannot be fully instantiated in concrete rules
restated_bykaal:claim:3782193-013 Because a transcendental value is by definition not rigorously formalizable, people organizing around an etern...
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