# Organizational failure

`kaal:entity:organizational-failure`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `organizational-failure`. 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

3 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782192-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-004) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Centralization is not the optimal organizational structure under highly dynamic conditions; the very features that make centralized hierarchies efficient become their greatest weaknesses when conditions change.
  > But centralization is not the optimal organizational structure under highly dynamic conditions. The usual strengths of centralized hierarchies become their greatest weaknesses.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192
- [3782192-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-010) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Unchecked concentration of power drives the distribution toward one member holding nearly all resources, which is clearly inefficient for the goals of the group, and the resulting discontent is the main historical reason for revolt.
  > In the limit, if left unchecked, the most powerful member would have WXX% of the resources and the others would have X%. Clearly, getting anywhere close to this distribution is inefficient for the goals of the group. The resulting discontent is the main historical reason for revolt.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192
- [3782192-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-022) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Even where corruption is avoided, rigidity still leads centralized organizations to catastrophic ends, because failures push members to cling more faithfully to the rules that saved them in the past, making the system still more rigid and brittle.
  > Even if corruption can be avoided in the beginning, the rigidity still leads centralized organizations to cata- strophic ends, as failures naturally push members to cling ever more faithfully to the rules that have saved them in the past, making the system even more rigid and brit- tle.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

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