Keeping dynamic rules coherent over the long run requires a decentralized organization to commit to transcendental values as primary, where transcendental means values that cannot be specified precisely, logically, and completely with formal rules.
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To keep these dynamic rules coherent in the long run, a decentralized organization must commit to transcendental values as primary.
Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203
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decentralized organizations with evolving rule sets
long time horizons
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