Alternative Organizations as Systems Hijacking: The Commercial Trust as a Thought Experiment
通过商业信托的思想实验，提出“系统劫持”概念，分析替代性组织如何利用现有制度形式推动社会系统转型，对研究社区财富建设与组织变革的学者有参考价值。
The COVID-19 crisis has renewed interest in alternative forms of organizing business and investment but our understanding of how these organizations can transform social systems is limited. The purpose of this article is to contribute to this understanding. In the context of one of the greatest transfers of wealth in global retail history that could see unprecedented numbers of businesses close or sold to distant, private interests, the article performs a thought experiment using the analogy of a commercial trust to encourage new ideas and critical reflection on community wealth building. The article introduces systems hijacking-a process of leveraging incumbent forms and systems in which they are embedded for new purposes-as an analytically useful concept for understanding how alternative organizations can transform social systems. The article finds organizational governance is necessary to transcend structural deficiencies in inherited or borrowed forms to make way for transformation.