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   "text": "Contrary to the dominant view of corporate governance as a forward looking endeavor, dynamic governance structures are properly categorized as backward looking ex ante forms of corporate governance.",
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   "text": "Traditional forward looking corporate governance systems adopt backward looking perspectives only after stable and optimal rules have emerged as suboptimal and require replacement or amendment.",
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   "text": "Dynamic governance structures involving governmental contracts are backward looking because the multilevel feedback effects they generate require an exchange of information about past events in order to anticipate future regulatory contingencies.",
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