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Once the equalizing ideal that moderates a decentralized organization is lost, competition generated by the profit motive leads inevitably to centralization with rigid rules about who holds power and wealth.

Without the previous equalizing ideal to moderate, the competition generated by the profit motive led in- evitably to the organization centralizing with rigid rules for who has power and wealth.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021), Chapter 9. Eight institutions, p. 2
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205

• organizations lacking a moderating shared ideal

mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: Loss of moderating idealfamily: recentralization-driftdecentralizationinstitutional-design

• extends kaal:claim:3782193-026 The authors accept Brafman and Beckstrom's thesis that the best way to convert a decentralized organization in...
• restated_by kaal:claim:3782214-018 Internal competition for profit creates a natural tendency to centralize power as members differentiate themse...

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