# Corporations

`kaal:entity:corporations`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `corporations`. 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, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782191-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-037) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Corporations centralize power in order to pursue a singular strategy that efficiently exploits market circumstances, but this produces instability when the market swings, because a brittle hierarchy may crash before it can reorganize to handle a new challenge.
  > Corporations tend to have centralized power, because they wish to employ a singu- lar strategy to efficiently exploit the circumstances of the market. However, this leads to instability whenever the market swings.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191
- [3782193-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-022) [mechanism/argued] -- When a group has more unity in its values it can tolerate less rigidity in its legal protocols, so greater value centralization permits greater protocol decentralization, which in turn produces greater long-term stability.
  > In general, the lesson of clans versus corporations is that when a group has more unity in their values, then they can have less rigidity in their legal protocols. So greater value centralization allows greater protocol decentralization which leads to greater long-term stability.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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