From Extraction Civilization to Home Civilization

Over the past three decades, the Western world has simultaneously entered structural crises across three 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 article, written 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 analysis of the deep roots of the current global governance impasse.The article argues that in an era of deep AI penetration, the prevailing "extraction management" paradigm—characterized by quantified performance, instant elimination, and the treatment of people as disposable components—is systematically destroying the only human competitive advantages that algorithms cannot replicate: moral courage, crisis intuition, and the willingness to sacrifice for the collective. By comparing the structural contradictions in American political and judicial life, the systemic inertia of European welfarism, and the residual resilience embedded in East Asia’s family–state–enterprise cultural continuum, the article proposes that East Asia must proactively construct an alternative "Home Civilization" that fuses Western hard governance with Eastern humanistic stewardship—or else remain trapped between two modes of failure. The article concludes with concrete policy implications and a research agenda for East Asian governance and think tank work, ensuring the theoretical framework has the operational specificity to enter the policy toolkit.