Control of smaller organisations than governments, e.g. charities.
Organization and management of businesses and nonprofits is, if not exactly a well-understood problem, then at least the subject of a large body of expertise, and more importantly, of constant real-life tests in the marketplace. If there existed a way to reach useful insight there by theorizing from first principles, I would guess that someone would have already found it (and used it to great practical success).
Organisation is different to control. I’m interested in changes to things like how the trustees are selected, rather than specific business practices. There is no incentive for the trustees to experiment with how the trustees are selected. So markets have little to work with.
Even a casual glance at the history of the last two centuries shows that transplanting political institutions from one culture to another doesn’t work in practice. Attempts to do so occasionally work by sheer luck, but more often fail miserably, and it’s not at all rare to see them blow up spectacularly.
And a casual glance another couple of centuries back shows political change springing up in a number of places due to the zeitgeist. Fairly violently, but we were probably better off for it (fewer religious purges and that kind of thing).
Organisation is different to control. I’m interested in changes to things like how the trustees are selected, rather than specific business practices. There is no incentive for the trustees to experiment with how the trustees are selected. So markets have little to work with.
And a casual glance another couple of centuries back shows political change springing up in a number of places due to the zeitgeist. Fairly violently, but we were probably better off for it (fewer religious purges and that kind of thing).