# kaal:claim:3782192-002

**Claim.** At the decentralized stage the individual nodes remain autonomous and the network assigns no fixed roles; coordination comes from alignment on a shared transcendental goal rather than from formal position, so that, as the authors put it, the values are the organization.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- decentralized stage of organization, before a hierarchy has formed

**Source quote.**

> The individual nodes remain autonomous; the network does not have fixed roles for each member. But they are all responding to a higher calling as they unite in purpose.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, page 2

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e7eafd56cb8a8bd15b64cf58216bb655f939bdcc296387e362fd9191976d67ae` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Introduction%20to%20Decentralization.pdf

**Topics.** decentralization, ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** decentralization, autonomy, shared-values, network-structure

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782220-037

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