PATTERN: Institutions
CONTEXTUAL PATTERNS: New Theory of the Firm.
Human collaborations which require reach beyond family/friendship, and which persist across time, require structure.
The qualitative character of this structure - how it is reproduced across time and through the persons that interact with it - has a strong conditioning effect on how the institution will be experienced, which is to some extent separable from the overt purpose of the structure - as an example imagine two environmental orgs addressing rhino conservation; one a UN NGO, the other a grass-roots federation of active environmentalists.
Such structure may be explicit or implicit.
it is increasingly considered sub-optimal for institutional structures to be implicit, since this can obscure/enforce damaging systemic outcomes (see Tyranny of Structurelessness).
CONTRIBUTORY PATTERNS: An approach to explicit structure is to use Purpose, Agreement, Policies and Daily Life.
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