This paper discusses the concept of authority in global governance by unpacking the components that characterize its … various notions. These components are the triadic relationship between power, legitimacy, and the reference to public … business and human rights. The paper shows that business authority does not neatly fit into the public-private distinction that …

the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority …Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in … hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to …

decisionmakers into a general structure of formal authority relations. Within such an authority structure, each decision maker acts … under which conditions decision makers decide to exercise their own authority and to accept their superiors' authority ….We distinguish two types of behavior within such an authority situation. First, we investigate a non-cooperative equilibrium concept …

This paper presents a theory of the allocation of authority in an organization in which centralization is limited by … the agent's ability to disobey the principal. We show that workers are given more authority when they are costly to … authority thus depends on external market conditions as well as the information and agency problems emphasized in the literature …

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the … actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority structure within an organization, it ignores the decision …

maintain or even enhance the employees working ability studies identified the quality of leadership. The following thesis … brings the concept of age-related leadership into focus, which deals with the individual, age-related needs of the employees …'. It examines the relationship between leaders age-related leadership behaviors and followers' perception of quality of …

allocation of authority depends on bargaining power and differences in both parties cost functions. The decision-maker is assumed … different. If the agents have similar cost parameters, bargaining power determines the allocation of authority. Possible …Authority is modelled as the right to undertake a non-contractible decision in a joint project. We show that the …

the ways land conflicts reflected, intensified or reshaped struggles over authority within and between families, local … about land tenure and debates over land transactions often turned on issues of authority. Who was entitled to sell, lease … with conflicts over authority and obligation at all levels of social interaction. This essay will focus on processes of …