Core research themes include institutional dynamics, systemic drift, governance under pressure, and the relational infrastructure of organisations.

The LUNAEOS Literacy™ framework was developed at the intersection of academic inquiry and lived institutional experience. 

At its core, LUNAEOS conceptualizes organizations as recursive systems in which:

structure → meaning → behaviour → patterns → feedback into structure

Rather than assuming that structures directly determine behaviour, the model shows that institutional expectations are interpreted through meaning, which is continuously transformed in relational interaction and enacted across organizational levels.

Meaning refers to the situated interpretive representation through which actors integrate institutional expectations, social context, prior experience, and constraints into a basis for action.

Meaning is not equivalent to expectation. While expectations may be formally defined, meaning is constructed and transformed in interaction.

The critical transformation does not occur at the level of structure or individual cognition alone, but within relational interaction. It is in meetings, coordination processes, and everyday exchanges that expectations are interpreted, negotiated, and reshaped into actionable meaning.

As meaning is constructed locally, it does not remain confined to individual or team contexts.

It propagates across levels through interaction, generating variation in how expectations are enacted throughout the organization. These variations accumulate into patterns such as norms, practices, and cultural tendencies.

This perspective shifts attention from organizational design to organizational enactment.

It suggests that system-level outcomes cannot be understood solely through formal structures, but require analysing how meaning is constructed and transformed across interaction.

Over more than a decade of working within complex organisational environments, I repeatedly observed dynamics that were difficult to explain through conventional governance or management models alone. These experiences reinforced the value of approaching institutional behaviour through both conceptual analysis and practical observation.

The framework engages with several intellectual traditions that examine how complex systems evolve and how behaviour emerges within organisational environments. Systems thinking, particularly as developed by scholars such as Donella Meadows, highlights how feedback processes and structural dynamics shape the behaviour of complex systems over time. Economic and institutional perspectives, including insights from Friedrich Hayek, emphasise that knowledge and decision-making are distributed across individuals rather than centrally controlled, meaning that institutional outcomes often emerge from local interpretations and interactions.

Research on governance and regulatory dynamics, particularly the work of Julia Black, further illustrates how institutional rules and expectations are interpreted and enacted within organisational settings. Institutional theory, including contributions from scholars such as Masahiko Aoki and Patricia H. Thornton, further illuminates how rules, norms, and institutional logics structure organisational environments. Complementing this perspective, Karl E. Weick’s work on sensemaking highlights how individuals collectively interpret institutional expectations and translate them into everyday organisational practice.

Its primary contribution lies in integrating these perspectives into a single mechanism-based model.

Bringing these perspectives together made it possible to develop a language for recognising systemic drift - not only as a theoretical concept, but as a phenomenon that can be observed within real organisational environments.