kaal:position:2026-07-31-5828

Startups Without Founders: How Daos Redefine Entrepreneurship—A Systematic Review And Process Model For Decentralized Innovation presents the following source proposition: Focusing on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), we explore how startups can operate without a central leader, and what that means for the future of organizational design. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Decentralized Autonomous Organizations challenge the core belief that governance necessitates agency, attacking organizational design at a fundamental level rather than merely reforming it. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.3592.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Startups Without Founders: How Daos Redefine Entrepreneurship—A Systematic Review And Process Model For Decentralized Innovation

kaal:claim:3411897-008
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897
Source PDF sha256: 82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3592
Mapping ambiguous: true

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Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0002 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 96bbe50580ed9c2e34721aa4275fea79e7c61af54b2d4fab2502def8d811b69e
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