QoTD -- Formalist edition

I've been trying to call out Kling's analysis of the topic for a while now....here he is today, riffing off a Robin Hanson line:

My guess is that most intellectuals underestimate just how dysfunctional most firms are.

This is part of a discussion of why businesses pay consultants. I think a pretty standard view is that CEOs bring in consultants to help overcome resistance in the internal bureaucracy. Intellectuals do not get that concept, because they assume that the CEO is a dictator with complete autonomy in the firm. As I have said before, that model is incorrect.

The fact remains ... ALL governance ever discovered is coalitional, NOT autocratic.  And grappling with the coalitional nature of governance is the core problem.