> isn't there a sociological theory that basically says that an organization tends to be controlled by the people who care about the continuity of the organization, instead of the goals it represents?
It's superficially funny and subversive at first glance, until you start thinking about its observations applied to large systems that you have worked on, and that you work and live within like BigCos and the government.
Systemantics has something to say about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
It's superficially funny and subversive at first glance, until you start thinking about its observations applied to large systems that you have worked on, and that you work and live within like BigCos and the government.