Ladders of Authority, Status, Responsibility and Ideology: Toward a Typology of Hierarchy in Social Systems
| Autor: | Georges Romme |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Innovation Technology Entrepr. & Marketing |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Typology
Self-organization Information Systems and Management Responsibility Computer Networks and Communications Metaphor media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Social mechanism lcsh:TA168 Status Hierarchy 0502 economics and business lcsh:Technology (General) Social system 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology media_common Transitive relation Achieved status Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth Complexity Formal authority Epistemology Control and Systems Engineering lcsh:Systems engineering SDG 8 – Fatsoenlijk werk en economische groei Modeling and Simulation lcsh:T1-995 Ideology 050203 business & management Software Organization |
| Zdroj: | Systems, 9(1):20. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Systems, Vol 9, Iss 20, p 20 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2079-8954 |
| Popis: | Hierarchy is a key characteristic of any complex system. This paper explores which notions of hierarchy are being used in the field of organization and management studies. Four distinct types of hierarchy are identified: a ladder of formal decision-making authority, a ladder of achieved status, a self-organized ladder of responsibility and an ideology-based ladder. A social mechanism-based perspective serves to define and distinguish these four types. Subsequently, the typology is further developed by comparing the four hierarchy types in terms of their tacit/explicitness, (in)transitivity and behavior- versus cognition-centeredness. This article contributes to the literature by dissecting the general metaphor of hierarchy into four different constructs and their social mechanisms, which serves to create a typology of the various ways in which complex social systems can be characterized as hierarchical. This typology can inform future research drawing on any type of hierarchy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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