# kaal:claim:3411897-021

**Claim.** Legacy businesses' attempts to control decentralized competition by acquiring and integrating decentralized firms into centralized power structures may actually produce the opposite of the intended effect, namely long term incremental proliferation of decentralized solutions.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** speculative

**Holds when.**

- legacy incumbents acquiring decentralized competitors
- control efforts still in their infancy

**Source quote.**

> The effect of curtailing decentralized solutions by integrating them into centralized power structures may actually be the long-term incremental proliferation of decentralized solutions.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future* (2019), Part 2: The Present, Decentralization Neutralizers, page 32

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Decentralization%20-%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future.pdf

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** decentralization-neutralizers, acquisitions, incumbents, unintended-consequences

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