# kaal:claim:3782217-002

**Claim.** Governance in a decentralized organization depends on meaningful reputation, and the meaning of any reputation is determined by its history and by how that history is analyzed and presented, which makes historiography a governance variable rather than a neutral record.

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

**Holds when.**

- decentralized organizations

**Source quote.**

> Governance relies on meaningful reputation to de- cide who or what to focus on. The meaning of reputation is determined by its history and how that history is analyzed and presented.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 9. Historiography, page 2

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

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**Topics.** governance-design, reputation, citation-and-knowledge, decentralization

**Keywords.** governance, reputation, historiography, decentralized-organizations

**Related claims.**

- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-033

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