Event Engineering — Part III: From Repeated Experience to Structural Extraction — How Repeated Experience Reveals What Persists Across Different Events

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22822220
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Management and Organizational Studies
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Event Engineering — Part III: From Repeated Experience to Structural Extraction — How Repeated Experience Reveals What Persists Across Different Events

Samir Baladi
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Management and Organizational Studies
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Event Engineering — Part III: From Repeated Experience to Structural Extraction — How Repeated Experience Reveals What Persists Across Different Events

Samir Baladi
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Abstract

Part I of Event Engineering described the event as lived experience: entry, execution, the emergence of unanticipated conditions, and an exit discovered late. Part II showed that the exit does not become significant merely because an objective possibility of leaving exists; its recognition is produced through execution itself. Part III addresses the movement that becomes possible only once this discovery is no longer a single occurrence: repetition. A single event is dominated by its particular content — its people, its circumstances, its consequences. Repeated events, however different in content, can be compared, and comparison can reveal a relation that persists despite that difference. This paper develops the operation of structural extraction: the separation of a recurring relation from the particular stories in which it repeatedly appears, using the temporal position of exit within the event as its central working example. The paper draws a deliberate boundary around this operation. Structural extraction is illustrated, but not defined, by an empirical case — the unfolding model of voluntary employee turnover and its use of qualitative comparison across departing employees' accounts — and is informed, without being subsumed, by methodological literatures on comparative analysis across cases, including grounded theory's comparative method, multiple-case theory-building, and research on the role of time scale in organizational theorizing. These methodological literatures are treated throughout as supporting analogues for the general operation of comparison across difference, not as frameworks from which the idea of Event Engineering, or the specific structural relation examined here, is derived. The paper's substantive claim is narrower and more direct: across markedly different forms of participation, exit repeatedly occupies the same structural position — discovered from inside execution rather than possessed at entry — and this recurring position, once extracted, becomes a transferable structural element independent of the event that first revealed it. Extraction, however, is not yet design. The paper deliberately stops short of asking whether the exit's structural position can be changed, reserving that question, and the resulting principle of Exit Before Entry, for Part IV. The central thesis is therefore: "Repetition reveals what persists across different events. The exit repeatedly appears as something discovered or activated from inside execution — and it is precisely because execution differs each time that this recurring structural position becomes visible." "Structural extraction does not ask what is identical in every event. It asks what relation remains recognizable across events that are otherwise different."

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Renaissance University (NG), Renaissance Sciences Corporation (United States) (US), Ronin Institute (US), Renaissance Services (United States) (US), Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship 2.0 (US)
Management and Organizational Studies
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