# kaal:claim:3808852-011

**Claim.** Societal path dependencies toward hierarchy and top-down command and control impose significant obstacles on organizational decentralization, hindering the transition of power from governments and large hierarchical organizations to the edges.

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

**Source quote.**

> Because of these societal path dependencies, organizational decentralization is subject to significant obstacles that hinder the transition of power from governments and large hierarchical organizations to the edges.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), III. Organizational Decentralization, page 10

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Failure mode.** hierarchical path dependency  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** institutional-design, decentralization

**Keywords.** path-dependency, hierarchy, organizational-decentralization, power-transfer

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