Please point out the (un)obvious
"경험을 복기하고 반추한 것을 매뉴얼이라 한다면 중소기업의 매뉴얼은 원시 상태 정도라고 봐야지"

It looks pretty normal sentence to me, except two words that I do have to look up in the dictionary. On the whole it does not look like a complex sentence at all but I almost let this pass off, until I catch sight of one of the object markers in the sentence above at 것을. I look over and over again and I still cannot figure out how the author put a 을 there instead of a 은 or 이. When you try to equate a manual to that blah blah blah at the front by a 이다 inside an indirect quote, even a beginner in introductory Korean grammar text would tell you that you would not use an object marker.

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Please point out the (un)obvious
"경험을 복기하고 반추한 것을 매뉴얼이라 한다면 중소기업의 매뉴얼은 원시 상태 정도라고 봐야지"

It looks pretty normal sentence to me, except two words that I do have to look up in the dictionary.  On the whole it does not look like a complex sentence at all but I almost let this pass off, until I catch sight of one of the object markers in the sentence above at 것을.  I look over and over again and I still cannot figure out how the author put a 을 there instead of a 은 or 이.  When you try to equate a manual to that blah blah blah  at the front by a 이다 inside an indirect quote, even a beginner in introductory Korean grammar text would tell you that you would not use an object marker.

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Is this a question? Imma go ahead assuming it is.

Sentence above paraphrased:  A을 B라고 "한다면", 중소기업의 B는 C라고 봐야지. The key to understanding why  the author put 을 instead of 은/이 in the first half of the sentence is "한다면":  한다면 here is subjunctive and is equivalent to 부른다면, so it would mean sth like "if we were to define/ if we were to call".

Basic semantic structure:
 If we were to define B as A,  B of smaller businesses would be  C.

Let's equate the first half in plain  form: 
매뉴얼은 경험을 복기하고 반추한 것이다.  << This is what you meant, right? youre right. No object marker needed. 
But the author used a different construct: 
매뉴얼을 "경험을 복기하고 반추한 것"이라 하자. <

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Good question. It wasn't so obvious. Wasn't so conscious of "한다면" before.

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