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   "text": "Platform disruptors such as Uber and Airbnb did not decentralize their industries by eliminating intermediaries; they decentralized by replacing incumbent intermediaries with algorithmic ones.",
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   "text": "Platform companies embrace an unmediated, flat, and inclusive culture in which trust and value are generated through the platform itself rather than through the management of workers and physical assets.",
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   "text": "Increased connectivity enabled by blockchain technology, combined with increased decentralization, allows the removal of intermediaries including lawyers, financial intermediaries, and platform companies.",
   "abstract": "Increased connectivity enabled by blockchain technology in combination with increased decentralization allows for the removal of intermediaries, including lawyers, financial intermediaries, and platform companies.",
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   "text": "Hybrid organizations combining centralized structure and profit optimization with bottom-up decentralization in the form of customer reviews generate significant success but also create tensions, because users who trust each other through ratings still demand consumer safeguards that require command-and-control structures.",
   "abstract": "While people are willing to trust others by way of user ratings, they also require safeguards for consumers that typically require command-and-control centralized structures.",
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