# Business models

`kaal:entity:business-models`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `business-models`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2026.

**2018**

- [3227967-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-012) [mechanism/argued] -- Since companies are increasingly managed by and run on software code, facilitating transactions, that is, acting as an active transaction engineer, now involves coding.
  > Since all companies are now increasingly managed by and run on software code, facilitating transactions – i.e., being an active transaction engineer - involves coding.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

**2026**

- [6421319-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-014) [failure/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Newspapers, record labels, broadcast networks, and publishing houses did not merely lose market share under zero marginal cost distribution; their foundational business models became structurally incoherent because those models assumed distribution was scarce and costly.
  > Their foundational business models, built on the assumption that distribution was scarce and costly, became structurally incoherent.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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