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Market concentration among the top five audit firms itself creates high barriers to entry for new participants in the code review market.

The current market dynamics dominated by the top 5 audit firms also create high barriers to entry for new players to enter into the code review market.

Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024), Current Players in the Field, p. 15
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Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

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• restates kaal:claim:3995709-019 The code review industry is dominated by a cartel formed by the top five code audit firms, and that cartel cre...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-017 The more hierarchical the code review process, the lower the quality of the reviewed code, and the same holds ...
• extends kaal:claim:3995709-012 The more hierarchical the code review process and the more barriers to entry it imposes, the lower the quality...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-024 Centralization of the code review industry produces overpricing because clients will pay nearly any price to o...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-026 Because a limited number of players control the code review market and its outputs, the quality of code review...

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