# kaal:claim:3782205-017

**Claim.** No profit-seeking decentralized organization can succeed against centralized competitors in the contemporary marketplace until all eight institutional problems are solved at once.

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

**Holds when.**

- profit-oriented decentralized organizations in the contemporary marketplace

**Source quote.**

> Finally, no decentralized organization devoted to profit can be successful in the contemporary marketplace against centralized organizations until eight big problems are solved, all at once.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 9. Eight institutions, page 3

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205

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**Failure mode.** Partial institutional build-out  (family: cold-start-and-bootstrapping)

**Topics.** dao, economics, institutional-design

**Keywords.** daos, competition, institutional-complementarity, profitability

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