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The fragile transmission mechanism where institutional commitments are carried through handovers, archives, personal memory, and organisational lore rather than through binding structural obligations. Social inheritance is inherently discretionary—new leaders may choose to honour past commitments but are under no structural compulsion.
Knowledge of 'why we do things this way' exists in senior staff memory, documented nowhere. When those staff retire, the rationale disappears; when new leadership questions the practice, nothing prevents abandonment.
IF Section 3.2