# kaal:claim:3782220-031

**Claim.** As an organization loses touch with its transcendental values, members use the rules to jockey for position in the hierarchy and corruption erodes the organization's effectiveness.

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

**Holds when.**

- organizations that have lost contact with their founding values

**Source quote.**

> As an organization loses touch with its transcendental values, members use the rules to jockey for position in the hierarchy, and corruption erodes the effective- ness of the organization.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Integrating polar values, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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**Failure mode.** rule gaming after value loss  (family: agency-cost-and-managerial-opportunism)

**Topics.** regulatory-failure, institutional-design

**Keywords.** corruption, rule-gaming, transcendental-values, hierarchy-decay

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-020

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