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   "text": "Legacy businesses' attempts to control decentralized competition by acquiring and integrating decentralized firms into centralized power structures may actually produce the opposite of the intended effect, namely long term incremental proliferation of decentralized solutions.",
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   "text": "Incumbent institutions deploy decentralization neutralizers, defined as mechanisms that preserve institutional relevance by blocking technologies that threaten to replace them, yet institutional replacement is inexorable once technology enables superior coordination.",
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