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.
The difference between a value you declare and a virtue you practice, and the discipline that turns one into the other.
Three familiar explanations for Philippine corruption, and why a scale mismatch explains more than any of them.
The model is not a tool and not a shared self. It is a companion in the work that has no interior life, and its emptiness is what forces me to do the caring.