# kaal:claim:3227933-029

**Claim.** The design premise of the DAO was that because people do not always follow rules even when the rules are well designed, it is better to use computer code to manage an organization.

**Type.** design  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- organizations aiming to automate governance

**Source quote.**

> The DAO intended to automate governance and was based on the idea that since "people" don't always follow the rules (even if the rules are well-designed), it is better to use computer code to manage an organization.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations* (2018), 7. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, page 15

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933

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**Topics.** dao, governance-design, institutional-design

**Keywords.** dao, automated-governance, code, organizational-design

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