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Excessive commitment durability that prevents legitimate adaptation. Overbinding occurs when institutions cannot revise commitments even when circumstances have fundamentally changed, when original purposes have been achieved or become impossible, or when better alternatives emerge. Overbinding is the opposite failure from commitment abandonment.
A charity's founding charter specifies helping a particular disease. The disease is cured. Without revision architecture, the charity either dissolves (losing organisational capacity) or distorts its mission to technically comply while actually serving different purposes. Overbinding prevented appropriate adaptation.
Section 4.3: Commitment Durability