# Firm heterogeneity

`kaal:entity:firm-heterogeneity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `firm-heterogeneity`. 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, 2014 to 2019.

**2014**

- [2486570-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2486570-027) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Generic industry advice on building an effective compliance program cannot work in practice because it is written to apply to many firms at once while no two companies are sufficiently alike for general guidance to be effective.
  > is necessarily mostly general because the advice is meant to apply to a multitude of companies. However, in practice, no two companies are sufficiently alike to effectively provide general guidance on compliance programs.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, The Effect of Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements on Corporate Governance Evidence from 1993-20 (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2486570

**2019**

- [3373393-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-016) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Existing governance mechanisms work well in some firms but are ineffective in others, because agency conflicts and their specific scope differ from firm to firm.
  > However, existing governance mechanisms work well in some firms but are ineffective in others.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Solutions for Agency Problems in Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3373393

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