# kaal:claim:3782191-004

**Claim.** There is no single definition of decentralization: its meaning changes with the kind of decentralization, the industry or field, the application, and the overall context, so what applies to political decentralization may be irrelevant to technological decentralization.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- across political, technological, organizational, market, and societal decentralization

**Source quote.**

> The definition of decentralization changes based on the kind of decentralization, the industry or field, application, and the overall con- text.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Preface to* (2021), Definition?, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `b0bf0529c3cf69839879bc4da476714efee2717a4beb768bd5c859b810e6174e` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Preface%20to.pdf

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** decentralization, definition, context-dependence, taxonomy

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