kaal:position:2026-07-31-6127

DAOs: The Theory of the Firm and Ostromian Perspectives presents the following source proposition: The use of smart contracts does not definitively determine whether DAOs should be classified as contractual, firm-like, or as hybrid arrangements. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Decentralized autonomous organizations epitomize organizational decentralization because the first DAO, built purely on code and smart contracts with no incorporation, physical address, or headquarters, entirely removed all traditional control mechanisms employed by principals in agency relationships. 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: 0.3882.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

DAOs: The Theory of the Firm and Ostromian Perspectives

kaal:claim:3808852-015
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852
Source PDF sha256: 31e91158fdeefebc2f0be54ebf89751f7cdd4c89ecea932888f5ba9be6b1caba

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3882
Mapping ambiguous: true

daosmart-contractsdecentralizationinstitutional-designhistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0003 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: ead436cb3bc27d0b2db8802062d296f04c4dc0b3b604ddd63a8d56c516dd0884
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