# Organizational structure

`kaal:entity:organizational-structure`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `organizational-structure`. 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 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782191-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-025) [mechanism/argued] -- Hierarchical centralization is optimally efficient for making big decisions affecting an entire organization, which is why it has historically outcompeted every other organizational structure, whether corporation, army, or government.
  > Hierarchical centralization is optimally efficient for making big decisions that affect the entire organization, and so it has historically outcompeted every other organiza- tional structure, be it corporation or army or government
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191
- [3995709-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-010) [empirical/evidenced] -- Organizational metrics, such as the number of developers working on a component, organizational distance between developers, and organizational code ownership, are better predictors of defect proneness than traditional metrics like churn, complexity, coverage, dependencies, and pre release bug measures.
  > including the number of developers working on a component, organizational distance between developers, and organizational code ownership, are "better predictors of defect-proneness than traditional metrics like churn, complexity, coverage, dependencies, and pre-release bug measures."45
  Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709
- [3995709-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-011) [empirical/evidenced] -- Organizational identity and structure affect the time and effectiveness of the code review process, as shown by a statistically significant difference in how quickly Apple accepts its own patches versus Google patches.
  > treats their own patches differently from external patches."48 Therefore, organizational identity and structure may have impacts on the time and effectiveness of the code review process.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

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