# kaal:claim:3782192-012

**Claim.** The more rigid an organization's structure, the more susceptible it is to corruption; at the chaos stage there is no protocol rigidity and therefore no opportunity for corruption, because with no group goal there is nothing to subvert.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- comparison across the chaos, decentralized, and centralized stages

**Source quote.**

> The more rigid the structure, the more susceptible the organization is to corruption. There is no protocol rigidity at the chaos stage, so there is no opportunity for corrup- tion—since there is no group goal there is no opportunity to subvert it.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, page 4

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

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** corruption, rigidity, protocol, organizational-stages

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