Positional Power in Hierarchies

René Brink and Frank Steffen
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René Brink: Free University Amsterdam
Frank Steffen: University of Liverpool Management School

Chapter 4. in Power, Freedom, and Voting, 2008, pp 57-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Power is a core concept for the analysis and design of organisations. The literature contains a wide variety of contributions from various disciplines dealing with different types and aspects of power in organisations. These can broadly be classified by a combination of two features: the subject of the analysis and its primary origin (Morriss 1987/2002: 107f). The subject is either the possession of power or its exercise and its primary origin is either an individual or a position in an organisation. That is, power is taken to be rooted in an individual or a position.

Keywords: Choice Function; Game Form; Simple Game; Positional Power; Extensive Game Form (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73382-9_4

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