# kaal:claim:3782192-015

**Claim.** As members constantly probe the edge of acceptable behavior, policing the rules becomes more expensive, the rules become divorced from the shared goals, and relationships become brittle and formal instead of warm and loose.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- organizations relying on formal rule enforcement

**Source quote.**

> As members constantly probe the edge of acceptable behavior, policing the rules becomes more expensive. The rules become divorced from the shared goals. Relationships become brittle and formal instead of warm and loose.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, page 5

**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

**Failure mode.** Escalating policing costs  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** compliance, reputation, institutional-design

**Keywords.** policing-costs, rule-enforcement, organizational-trust, corruption

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-016

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