Every located peer-reviewed extension of the Fresh Start Effect since 2021 keeps the individual as the psychological unit; no work treats a collective or organization itself as undergoing the dissociation-from-a-past-self mechanism

Across every extension of the Fresh Start Effect / temporal-landmark literature located in a general-web search of the citing work — Beshears et al. 2021 (workplace retirement savings, claim-beshears-2021-fresh-start-savings-intervention-stays-individual-level), Guo, Zhou & Duan 2025 (workplace performance and goal orientation, claim-guo-2025-fresh-start-mindset-at-work-is-individual-differences-not-team-level), and Strizhakova, Coulter & Price 2024 (consumer environmental donation, claim-strizhakova-2024-fresh-start-donation-messaging-stays-individual-consumer) — the psychological mechanism (dissociation from an "imperfect past self," subjective new-beginning framing, per claim-fresh-start-effect-requires-subjective-new-beginning-framing) is applied to individuals embedded in organizations or markets, not to organizations or markets as units. This is a sharper claim than "the effect has never been discussed near organizations" — it has, repeatedly, since 2021 — but in every case the entity doing the psychological dissociating is a person, not a firm, team, or field.

The one located source that explicitly asserts an organization- or team-scale Fresh Start Effect (gc-bs.org, Tier 4, no named author, an unverifiable "10,430 corporate participants" statistic) could not be corroborated by any primary or peer-reviewed secondary source; its specific empirical figures appear nowhere else and its own citation list does not obviously support the organizational-scale claims in its body. It is recorded as a negative finding: practitioner treatments assert the collective extension casually; the peer-reviewed literature, as far as this search reached, has not made it.

This resolves question-fresh-start-effect-extends-to-collective-organizational-scale: as of this search, no — the mechanism has not been shown, in peer-reviewed work, to operate on a collective or organizational unit the way it operates on an individual. Consequently observation-deep-learning-rebrand-as-field-scale-fresh-start's field-scale mapping must remain an explicitly-labeled analogy, not a citation. This is a bounded negative result, not proof of absence: the search covered the papers citing/extending Dai, Milkman & Riis that surfaced through general web search, not a systematic citation-graph review (Chen & Wei 2023 and Su et al. 2021, both cited by Strizhakova et al., remain unread). The org-theory side has its own, independently-derived account of organizational reorientation (claim-executive-succession-restructuring-runs-through-actor-action; claim-tushman-romanelli-1985-reorientation-exogenous-trigger; moc-schema-change-and-restructuring) that neither needs nor uses the Fresh Start mechanism.