From Extraction Civilization to Home Civilization: Reconstructing East Asian Management Civilization in the Age of AI and Global Governance Crisis

从攫取文明到家园文明：AI时代与全球治理危机中重建东亚管理文明

Tong YinInsightBridge Global2026-02-01Industry Report

Over the past three decades, the Western world has entered structural crises across three simultaneous domains: political institutions have lost their capacity for self-correction, business civilization has been captured by short-termism, and organizational management has devolved into a human extraction apparatus. This think tank report, authored from the perspective of a management scholar, draws on two original theoretical frameworks — Core Code Theory (submitted to the Academy of Management Review) and The Home Model (submitted to MIT Sloan Management Review) — to provide a systemic diagnosis of the deep roots of the current global governance impasse. The report argues that the prevailing 'extraction management' paradigm — characterized by quantified performance metrics, instant elimination, and the treatment of people as disposable components — is systematically destroying the only human competitive advantages that AI algorithms cannot replicate: moral courage, crisis intuition, and the willingness to sacrifice for the collective. The analysis proceeds in two major parts. Part I offers a civilizational and institutional diagnosis, contrasting the American 'ruthless arena' model, in which judicial processes are increasingly perceived as extensions of power relationships rather than expressions of neutral institutional order, with the European 'costly greenhouse' model, in which welfare-oriented policy crowds out excellence and decisive leadership. Both pathways are shown to be structurally self-defeating in an era of compounding crises. Part II develops the two theoretical frameworks in detail. Core Code Theory distinguishes between 'Performance UI' — the observable, quantifiable layer of human work that AI can replicate — and 'Core Code,' the morally grounded, identity-bound capacities that satisfy all four VRIN conditions of competitive advantage. The Home Model proposes that high-trust organizations function as organizational options: their trust reserves appear as cost centers during stable periods but release non-linear defensive value the moment existential crisis strikes. By comparing structural contradictions in American political life, the systemic inertia of European welfarism, and the residual resilience embedded in East Asia's family-state-enterprise cultural continuum, the report argues that East Asia must proactively construct an alternative 'Home Civilization' that fuses Western hard governance with Eastern humanistic stewardship. The report concludes with concrete policy implications and a research agenda for East Asian governance and think tank work, ensuring the theoretical frameworks achieve the operational specificity necessary to enter the policy toolkit.

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@techreport{yin2026extraction,
  author    = {Tong Yin},
  title     = {From Extraction Civilization to Home Civilization: Reconstructing East Asian Management Civilization in the Age of AI and Global Governance Crisis},
  institution = {InsightBridge Global},
  year      = {2026},
  month     = {February},
  note      = {A systemic analysis based on Core Code Theory and The Home Model}
}