FRANCISCO M. MARTINEZ LIBRARY
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Post-Personal Dark Leadership

Destructive Authority, Responsibility Dissolution, and Command Persistence in Human–Machine Institutions

Abstract

A conceptual theory article explaining how destructive authority can migrate into protocols, classifications, archives, inherited rules, algorithms, and human–machine infrastructure, allowing command to persist after its originating leader is absent or no longer necessary.

Author
Francisco M. Martinez
Publication date
2026
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.21440317
Research program
Leadership, Institutions, and Organizational Systems
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