SAE Theory of the Company · Paper 6: Keeping the Direction / SAE 公司论 第六篇: 守向
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The earlier papers wrote what a company oriented toward the Kingdom of Ends does toward five parties. This paper asks what keeps that direction. In February 2020, Wells Fargo paid 3 billion dollars, through a deferred prosecution agreement and a civil settlement, to resolve the criminal and civil investigations into its sales practices; it admitted that from 2002 to 2016, under the Community Bank's onerous sales goals and accompanying management pressure, customers were charged fees and interest they should not have been charged. Internal investigators had called it a "growing plague" as early as 2004, yet the Community Bank's senior leaders did not change that sales model. The problem had been seen early; why was it not changed? This paper does not answer for this case; what it asks is what keeps a company's direction. Consensus loosens: people change, companies are acquired, and a written consensus slowly comes to exist only on paper; and a company cannot require people to agree with it. So keeping the direction cannot presuppose consensus, and can rest only on constructs and positions: the baseline is written into the articles and into decision procedures, and changing it must be public and open to questioning; self-correcting channels are independent of the party questioned and are examined by the three questions, and those who ask are not penalized for asking; incentive structures do not override the baseline, and the position that sets a target is accountable for where the target presses (GS12). The John Lewis Partnership Council's power to dismiss the chairman, the Delaware public benefit corporation's periodic reports and the stockholders' power to sue, and the external channels run by competent authorities and the ban on retaliation in the EU Whistleblower Directive each show one kind of arrangement; John Lewis's plan to shrink its Partnership Council, and the third generation of Crossways, in this series' constructed examples, changing the composition of the Seller Appeals Committee, show that the channels that keep the direction can themselves be changed. The judgment of hard times has reasons that can be given and can be questioned; if the judgment is wrong, the position that made it bears the corrections and the consequences of accountability that correspond to it, and individual responsibility beyond that requires independent grounds (GS13). Finally the paper speaks of direction: keeping the direction is also leaving conditions for those who come later. The paper has two propositions (GS12, GS13), each stated at the end of its section and listed together at the end. 前几篇写了一家目的王国方向的公司对五方怎样做。这一篇问:这个方向靠什么守住。2020 年 2 月,富国银行付 30 亿美元,以暂缓起诉协议与民事和解了结销售行为案的刑事与民事调查;它承认,2002 年到 2016 年,社区银行繁重的销售指标与随之而来的管理层压力下,客户被收了不该收的费用与利息。内部调查者 2004 年就称之为"蔓延的瘟疫",社区银行的高层却没有改那套销售模式。问题早被看到了,为什么没有改?这一篇不替这一案作答;它问的是,一家公司的方向靠什么守住。共识会松:人会换,公司会被收购,写下的共识会慢慢只剩在纸上;公司又不能要求人认同它。所以守向不能以共识为前提,只能落在构与位置上:底线写进章程与决策程序,改了要公开、可被问;自我修正的通道独立于被问的一方,照三问核,问的人不因问而受罚;激励的结构不压过底线,定指标的位置对指标压到了哪里负责(GS12)。约翰·刘易斯的合伙委员会能罢免主席,特拉华公益公司要定期报告、股东可以起诉,欧盟的吹哨人指令设了由主管机关来办的外部渠道、禁止报复,各示范一种安排;约翰·刘易斯缩编合伙委员会的计划,与本系列设的通衢第三代改动卖家申诉委员会的组成,示范守向的通道本身也会被改。难关的判断,理由说得出来、可以被问;判错了,作判断的位置担与它相应的纠错与职责后果,个人另负责任须有独立的根据(GS13)。最后说方向:守向也是给后来的人留条件。全篇两条(GS12、GS13),各节末写出,篇末合列。 Related works(12) Relation Identifier Scheme Resource type Title References 10.5281/zenodo.19328662 DOI Publication / Preprint How Is Institution Possible: From Inter-Ontological Remainder to Co-Constructive Framework (SAE Foundational Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23269635 DOI Publication / Preprint To Whom the Ought Is Addressed (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23271324 DOI Publication / Preprint Open to Questioning (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874138 DOI Publication / Preprint Accumulation (SAE Political Economy, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874142 DOI Publication / Preprint Checks (SAE Political Economy, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874146 DOI Publication / Preprint Conversion (SAE Political Economy, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874150 DOI Publication / Preprint Growth (SAE Political Economy, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24021385 DOI Publication / Preprint A Way Out, a Way Forward (SAE Political Economy, Specialist Paper) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045716 DOI Publication / Preprint What a Company Is Not (SAE Theory of the Company, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045721 DOI Publication / Preprint Investment (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045723 DOI Publication / Preprint Working Together (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045733 DOI Publication / Preprint Partners (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 4)
Author: Qin, Han
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225575672