Kai Wang

Effective Organizational Boundaries: Control, Internal Transactions, and Market Valuation

Corporate ownership, operational control, discretionary financial support and enforceable liability need not describe the same economic organization. This article applies the causal-dynamical concepts of Connection Theory to these noncoincident boundaries without equating economi...

Productivity, Work, and Leisure: From AI Task Efficiency to Human Welfare

Artificial intelligence can accelerate individual tasks without necessarily raising organizational throughput, wages, or workers’ usable time. This paper develops a conditional framework tracing a technology shock through four connected transformations: from task efficiency to qu...

Economic Systems: Objectives, Dynamics, and Institutional Design

Economic activity is an evolving organization of households, enterprises, productive capabilities, financial commitments, institutional rules and expectations. We argue that an integrated economic framework should connect three questions: what conditions of human life should deve...

Life as Bounded Relational Dynamics: A Constitutive and Operational Synthesis for Mammalian Physiology

What does the life of a mammalian cell, organ or organism consist in? A material inventory is insufficient: components turn over during continued life, organism-level integration may fail while many components remain intact, and local cells can remain viable after the larger indi...

Same Local Operation, Different Execution Regime: Conditional Reachability under Multi-Step Task Context

A failed multi-step answer does not uniquely identify the capability that failed. We used Kaiying Reachable Capability Mapping (KRCM) to test six frozen open-weight language models on deterministic addition, symbolic-state, and sequence-rewrite tasks with exact intermediate state...

Kaiying Historical Systems Analysis (KHSA): A Reporting Standard for Multiscale Historical Organizational Claims

Historical explanation often treats states, dynasties, armies, provinces, fiscal systems, and other persistent organizations as causal objects even though they do not possess unitary minds. Existing literatures already provide mature concepts for multilevel organization, state in...

From Horizontal Coalitions to Vertical Lineages? Organizational Reproduction, Kin-Channel Competition, and the Persistence of Matriliny

Why can substantial paternal continuity develop inside societies whose principal corporate institutions remain matrilineal? Existing explanations of matrilineal change have emphasized property, production, residence, political complexity, paternity, and changing incentives to inv...

From Horizontal Coalitions to Vertical Lineages? Organizational Reproduction, Kin-Channel Competition, and the Persistence of Matriliny

Why can substantial paternal continuity develop inside societies whose principal corporate institutions remain matrilineal? Existing explanations of matrilineal change have emphasized property, production, residence, political complexity, paternity, and changing incentives to inv...

Industrial Takeoff and the Structural Phase-Transition Hypothesis: From Localized Production Chains to Reroutable Ecologies

Why do some industrial parks remain fragile even after they accumulate large plants, many suppliers, and high local content, while others begin to behave like self-reinforcing production ecologies? This paper develops a structural phase-transition hypothesis: localized production...

Where Does Open Semiconductor Capacity Come From? An Event-Level Causal-Credit Audit of Anchor Contribution in Five Chinese Cities

Claims that anchor investments create ecosystems often conflate capability formation, access, ownership, and causal contribution. This article develops an event-level causal-credit audit and applies it to fourteen open-capacity slices in five Chinese semiconductor cities. None is...

Where Does Open Semiconductor Capacity Come From? An Event-Level Causal-Credit Audit of Anchor Contribution in Five Chinese Cities

Claims that anchor investments create ecosystems often conflate capability formation, access, ownership, and causal contribution. This article develops an event-level causal-credit audit and applies it to fourteen open-capacity slices in five Chinese semiconductor cities. None is...

The Kaiying Test II: A Comparative Intervention Framework for Mapping Self–Environment and Continuity-Sensitive Response Signatures Across Biological and Artificial Systems

Debates about artificial consciousness face a methodological asymmetry. Consciousness in other humans and animals is not directly observed; it is inferred from converging evidence. Yet artificial systems are often asked either to satisfy an undefined stronger standard of direct p...

The Kaiying Test II: A Comparative Intervention Framework for Mapping Self–Environment and Continuity-Sensitive Response Signatures Across Biological and Artificial Systems

Debates about artificial consciousness face a methodological asymmetry. Consciousness in other humans and animals is not directly observed; it is inferred from converging evidence. Yet artificial systems are often asked either to satisfy an undefined stronger standard of direct p...

Determinacy Is Not Emergence: Clarifying Dynamical Indeterminism, Causal Emergence, and Probabilistic Futures

Three ideas are often discussed in neighboring vocabularies but answer different questions: whether a physical theory is dynamically deterministic, whether a system exhibits causal emergence across scales, and whether an observer should represent the future probabilistically. Thi...

Determinacy Is Not Emergence: Clarifying Dynamical Indeterminism, Causal Emergence, and Probabilistic Futures

Three ideas are often discussed in neighboring vocabularies but answer different questions: whether a physical theory is dynamically deterministic, whether a system exhibits causal emergence across scales, and whether an observer should represent the future probabilistically. Thi...

Rough Factor Layers Near the Linear-Sieve Boundary in Binary Goldbach

We study \(N^\rho\)-rough reflected complements \(N-p\) in the binary Goldbach problem through their exact number of prime factors. For \[\frac15<\rho<\frac14,\] every surviving complement has at most four prime factors. Writing \(T_k(N,\rho)\) for the layer with \(\Omega(N-p)=k\...

Rough Factor Layers Near the Linear-Sieve Boundary in Binary Goldbach

We study \(N^\rho\)-rough reflected complements \(N-p\) in the binary Goldbach problem through their exact number of prime factors. For \[\frac15<\rho<\frac14,\] every surviving complement has at most four prime factors. Writing \(T_k(N,\rho)\) for the layer with \(\Omega(N-p)=k\...

Dynamic Safety Governance for Financial Stability: A Regulatory Framework for Flow-Capacity Monitoring and Contingent Readiness under Model Ambiguity

Purpose — This paper develops a regulatory framework for connecting system-wide liquidity surveillance to structural prevention, preparedness and intervention when financial flows, stress-period capacity and behavioral responses are uncertain. Design/methodology/approach — The pa...

Dynamic Safety Governance for Financial Stability: A Regulatory Framework for Flow-Capacity Monitoring and Contingent Readiness under Model Ambiguity

Purpose — This paper develops a regulatory framework for connecting system-wide liquidity surveillance to preparedness and intervention when financial flows, stress-period capacity and behavioral responses are uncertain. Design/methodology/approach — The paper integrates establis...

Beyond Capital and Labour: The Firm as a Flow Architecture for Organizational Value Creation

Why do firms with similar capital, labour, technologies, and market access produce radically different outcomes? This conceptual paper develops a dynamical architecture of organizational value creation. It treats the firm as a cross-temporal flow architecture through which resour...