From National Value Models to Enterprise Value Models: Chokepoints, Trust Infrastructure, and Corporate Leverage Strategy under the Geoeconomic Scenarios of the AI Era

This paper (VURA Working Paper Series No. 11) maps the body of theory of Layer Zero (National Value Models), which treats the configuration of resources, capabilities, and institutions among states, downward onto Layer Three, which treats enterprise management. Redefinition option sets of enterprises are delimited exogenously by five variables: access to AI capability, computing infrastructure/electricity, data discipline, conformity requirements, and component procurability. Based on this framework, the paper formalizes enterprise positioning across nine cells and corporate leverage (indispensability and desirability) as independent variables. Core claims include: Enterprise position on the nine cells and corporate leverage (indispensability and desirability) are independent variables. AI capability itself does not constitute an entry barrier; what protects a position is integration cost (conformity, verification personnel, liability allocation, etc.). Indispensability (grounded in chokepoints) depreciates upon exercise, whereas desirability (grounded in integrated systems and trust infrastructure) appreciates through use up to an upper bound. Residual competitive advantage after efficiency commoditization is driven by value-definition capability. The paper presents 37 definitions, 80 propositions (each with a falsification condition), 4 hypotheses, and empirical illustrations covering 31 enterprises on public information.