knowledge building as well as for practice-oriented approaches: the art and craft of handling strategic actors and power …

of conflict referred from lower to higher levels of the hierarchy, but does not increase the amount of conflict referred … referred to higher levels of the hierarchy; that it is possible in matrix forms that no conflict is resolved at the lowest … levels of the hierarchy; and, that accountability is reduced for those who are able to refer conflict. The study reveals …

structure of formal authority relationships.Within such a structure, decision makers act as principal to some decision makers … authority and accept their superiors' authority.We distinguish two types of behavior.First, we investigate a non …-cooperative equilibrium concept describing explicit exercise of authority. Second, we consider the possibility of subordinates to submit …

the process of conflict management from the perspective of social influence generated by the status of power in this field …

sets of problems centred on “hierarchy” and “power”. However, such a presentation eludes the content of non-economic works … such as Max Weber’s classical ones on the need to distinguish “authority” and “power”. So, the dimension of legitimacy is …

literature on power and its relationship to both formal and informal authority, and its manifestation as organizational politics …Although reasonably well developed in the general management literature, the source and use of power in organizations …, and relates them to construction projects in general. Reward, coercive, expert and referent (prestige) power and the role …

concept of power. To be in power, to have full powers, to obey power, to gain power are expressions that translate the … turn, the organizations are the theatre of numerous power games and conflicts. These are not connected only by personal … observations require a careful investigation of the power sources and the effects in an economic organization, so that we could …

knowledge by means of di®erent combinations among power of allocation of decisions and exercise of authority. Together …, organizational power shapes the very preferences of organizational members. More specifically, we study the efficiency of different …

Contemporary ideas and strategies of both \'risk\' and \'power\' are significant and dynamic influences in social … between the individual and the social, and between the marginalised and the mainstream. Building on this, \'power\' will be …-making will inform the argument that it can be viewed as a vehicle for the maintenance and legitimation of power relations which …