# Corporate form

`kaal:entity:corporate-form`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `corporate-form`. 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 2019.

**2018**

- [3227933-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227933-030) [empirical/evidenced] -- The DAO showed that a corporate-type organization can operate with no physical address, no directors, no managers and no employees, with its governance structure built entirely from software, code and smart contracts running on Ethereum.
  > Indeed, the DAO didn't have any directors, managers or employees. The governance structure was built with software, code and smart contracts that ran on the public decentralized blockchain platform, Ethereum.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933

**2019**

- [3373393-029](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-029) [empirical/evidenced] -- The first DAO had no physical address, no jurisdiction able to claim control over it, no directors, managers, or employees, so all the core control mechanisms typically employed by principals in agency relationships were entirely removed.
  > Indeed, it had no directors, managers or employees. In essence, all the core control mechanisms typically employed by principals in agency relationships were entirely removed in the DAO.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Solutions for Agency Problems in Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3373393

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/corporate-form.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.