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Definitions / Decision rights
DEFINITION USED IN THIS COLLECTION

Decision rights.

Authority to determine rules or major decisions; include equal voting and control of scope definitions.

Ownership, control and benefits

What it includes

Authority to determine rules or major decisions; include equal voting and control of scope definitions.

Where the boundary lies

Being consulted or attending a forum does not establish binding authority.

How speakers put it.

EXPLICIT RELATED FORMULATION · Economic rights and voting rights
Likely speaker
Lilly PokrakaProject Manager · Purpose Foundation
Stuart ownership unbundled conventional ownership, right? So we separate economic rights from voting rights and that's basically, Shared Tribe has implemented this in their structure with the different share classes. So when you refer to ownership that is held by outside investors, for example, they hold economic shares and the voting shares are held within Shared Tribe itself.

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Lilly explicitly distinguishes economic rights from voting rights. The analytical code also covers other forms of binding authority.

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Mission Without Exit: Designing Ownership That Survives Success

Evidence in practice.

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Analyst applies. Traceability identifies origin but cannot substitute for rigorous due diligence, participation or fair benefit distribution.

Qualifies the boundary. Being consulted or attending a forum does not establish binding authority.

Differences and limits.

No event-wide agreement is inferred from coding. Compare the attributed examples and boundaries; co-occurrence is not evidence of agreement.

Being consulted or attending a forum does not establish binding authority.

Related concepts.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

ownership model →

Ownership form and binding authority are separate dimensions; an ownership label alone does not specify control.

contrasting · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

representation →

Having a voice in deliberation does not establish a binding vote, veto or decision right.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

governance rules →

Decision rights allocate authority; governance rules also include procedures and responsibilities.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

stewardship →

Protected purpose can constrain control, but does not necessarily make control democratic.

Codes that occur in the same passages

Co-occurrence describes coding, not equivalence, causation or agreement.

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