Measuring Stakeholder Agreement and Stability in a Decentralised Organisation

Abstract: A decentralised organisation (DO) is a multi-stakeholder institution where decision making is assigned to various levels of the organisation. Decentralised stakeholders play an important role in the governance of a decentralised organisation. The ability to measure DO stability will help monitor the health of the organisation and acts as an early warning system for disagreement and group exit, leading to its destabilisation/collapse. For example, blockchain hard forks. We propose the organisational tension quadrilateral to study agreement between stakeholders and build a tool based on voting data (information as vote choices) to measure its stability. The stakeholders are permitted to vote their choice into an electronic ballot box. Here, each vote choice represents a measure of agreement. When voting ends, this information is aggregated and used to build a metric for DO stability. To the best of our knowledge, there are no similar tools available to measure DO stability.