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   "text": "Centralized organization of society has reached its limitations, evidenced by weakening public sector legitimacy, economic decline, disillusionment with existing institutions, inadequate response to geopolitical problems, and pressure on overly centralized systems.",
   "abstract": "Other indicators suggest that centralized organization of society has in many ways reached limitations: the general weakening legitimacy of the public sector; increas- ing economic decline; disillusionment with existing business, political, and social in- stitutions",
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   "text": "Reputation has lost much of its meaning during the current institutional disruption: people in dying fields cash in on reputations built over previous generations in a fire sale mentality, and reputation itself is becoming a suspect concept.",
   "abstract": "Reputation has lost much of its meaning during the disruption that we are expe- riencing as the global society is emerging. As old institutions fall, there is a fire sale mentality amongst people in dying fields where they cash in on the reputations that were built over previous generations.",
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