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🚨 WHAT IF YOUR ORGANISATION KNOWS IT IS WRONG — BUT CANNOT AFFORD TO ADMIT IT? Escalation of Commitment, Institutional Self-Protection and the Governance of Reversal
When evidence changes, can the organisation change with it? This paper examines how sunk commitments, procedural echo, motivated reasoning and institutional self-protection can make reversing a decision progressively harder — and proposes a Governance of Reversal test for boards and leaders.