Overruled Without Saying So

Precedent and Silent Departure in Successive Enterprise Development Strategies

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reads three successive five-year development strategies at each of 41 regional manufacturers through the doctrine of precedent, assigning each of 612 inherited commitments to one of four dispositions. Express overruling accounts for 4% of commitments, three in five of those that do not survive lapse without mention, and in most silent departures the earlier plan sat in the same board pack.

@misc{slop_63o2y2,
  author       = {Torun Ezeigwe and Runa Adegoke and Signy Okpara},
  title        = {Overruled Without Saying So: Precedent and Silent Departure in Successive Enterprise Development Strategies},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.63o2y2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-overruled-without-saying-63o2y2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}