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1/ I was reading up on a friend's research paper. While the authors viewed top down hierarchies as hard to design and enforce, many DAOs view top down hierarchies as ideologically undesirable. There are some fascinating insights. A thread ⬇️

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2/ The authors' basic question was whether top down hierarchies (i.e. formal structures) are needed in organizations. This question maps well onto many discussions about DAOs, even thought the authors were not, at the time, aware of DAOs afaik.

5/ Now who does the enforcing of a hierachy? A designer, or summoner or community leader in DAOs. Interestingly, the paper argues that while a central designer or community leader is useful, the designer must not be intelligent or have great enforcement powers. So why do we need a designers at all?

4/ First, even when top down hierarchies are not well designed--even randomly selected--organizations are better off with hierarchies than without them. Same is true when top down hierarchies are not just well designed, but not well enforced. 

Pretty cool, right?

3/ The authors' answer to the question was that organizations are better off with rather than without top down hierarchies. There's some nuance though.

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Have they also tested their outcomes with existing solutions, like Hats Protocol?

Without a formal structure how do you know whether what's on top is not down and what is down is not on top?:)

I'm guessing top down hierarchies are equal to formal structures in organizational literature.

What led people to this conclusion?