# Incumbency

`kaal:entity:incumbency`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `incumbency`. 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, 2017 to 2021.

**2017**

- [3071378-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-017) [mechanism/argued] -- Top management retains support only so long as others in the corporate structure keep them in power, which gives incumbents an incentive to keep upper management composition unchanged.
  > Second, top management are supported so long as others in the corporate structure continue to hold them in power.64 This gives them an incentive to keep the upper management the same.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

**2021**

- [3808873-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Even where superior decentralized technological solutions exist, the centralized elements deeply engrained in business and society can be perpetuated by the efficiency gains of the S curve of centralization, so superiority alone does not displace them.
  > Despite the emergence of superior decentralized technological solutions that have been emerging at the beginning of the 21st century, the centralized elements in business and society can be perpetuated via the efficiency gains in the S-curve of centralization.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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