kaal:position:2026-07-31-6504

Decentralization and Disintermediation in Blockchain-based Marketplaces presents the following source proposition: Marketplaces facilitate the exchange of services, goods, and information between individuals and businesses. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Blockchain-based smart contracts in digital marketplaces are the technology most likely to extend and lead the decentralization of the relationship between businesses and their counterparties. 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: 0.3805.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Decentralization and Disintermediation in Blockchain-based Marketplaces

kaal:claim:2922176-020
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176
Source PDF sha256: fa4e986917d437cb1504281e7b986be2698e9507d8feaf426c9d7d1754ca882c

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3805
Mapping ambiguous: true

blockchainsmart-contractsdecentralizationeconomicshistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0005 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 1fe87b2ecd4797840c0ecc4160e672b02fe42a10421ebf85e326a24c768a043f
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