A worry about Diwa-Kapwa-Loob: if diwa is undone by being claimed, can it ground a management theory at all? It can, because naming a structure and claiming a personal virtue are different acts. The framework checks organizations; it does not certify people.
On the shadow side of Filipino values: the same orientations that build solidarity can be turned, fluently, into extraction.
A one-letter choice, and the case for an indigenous Filipino management theory built by recovery rather than invention.
If innovation is recombination, the part that matters is the act of grasping a unity others missed. That grasp, what Lonergan called insight, has conditions, and our diwa is what opens or blocks them.