Primary Research Materials
This page lists primary research papers in which concepts developed on this site are formally defined. Essays serve as observational notes; papers provide definitions and analytical scope. The works below are presented as working hypotheses rather than a closed theoretical system.
Irreversible Creative Capital and Endogenous Rational Non-intervention
When Economic Rationality Requires Non-intervention
Naoki Kitamura
Independent Researcher
- First released: January 2026
- Format: Working Paper / Preprint
- Repository: SSRN
Abstract (Summary)
This paper examines the conditions under which governance intervention may cease to be economically rational when value creation depends on Irreversible Creative Capital (ICC), defined as irreversible lifetime commitment to creative activity under irreducible uncertainty.
It introduces Endogenous Rational Non-intervention (ERNI) as a conditional governance outcome and derives testable implications for exploratory diversity, outcome distributions, and selection dynamics.
Supplement: Relationship to This Site
The essays published on this site function as contextual scaffolding for the concepts and problem settings addressed in the papers listed above. They reposition these ideas within broader contexts, including professional practice, organizational design, institutional operation, and personal reflection.
The texts on this site are not primary research outputs and do not present theoretical claims or hypotheses.
Formal definitions of concepts and falsifiable hypotheses are restricted to the separately published papers.
If the papers serve as fixed conceptual reference points, the essays on this site operate around those points, collecting questions, tensions, and misalignments that have not yet been fully articulated within formal theoretical language.
Research Program (Planned Structure)
This research program is structured across three analytical layers:
- Economic and governance conditions (E)
- Human action and motivation (H)
- Temporal and institutional dynamics (T)
Specific hypotheses are detailed in the corresponding papers.
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