Architectural Assurance

AAGovernance Through Design

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Introduces architectural assurance as a governance paradigm that re-locates assurance effort from retrospective oversight to enforceable system design. Develops an analytical framework linking constraint placement to assurance load, explaining why assurance burden grows non-linearly with organisational complexity under oversight-based models and how preventive architectural constraints can stabilise governance capacity.

Where it sits. Extends the authority trunk by re-framing governance as a design problem—shifting from detection to structural prevention.

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Key termsArchitectural Assurance · Governance Design · Constraint Placement · Assurance Load · Board Oversight · Preventive Governance

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No paper yetArchitectural Assurance: Re-locating Governance from Oversight to Enforceable System Design is a working paper with no SSRN record yet. Said plainly rather than linked to a record that does not exist.

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