Formal and real authority in organizations

Aghion, P., & Tirole, J. (1997). Formal and real authority in organizations. Journal of Political Economy, 105(1), 1-29.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1997

DOI

10.1086/262063

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/262063

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military_strategic_studies

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Primes

• Authority Delegation Under Uncertainty
  • The structural problem of pre-positioning decision authority at the operational level for contingencies that cannot be fully specified or anticipated in advance, enabling rapid distributed action without waiting for central coordination or consensus, a tension Aghion and Tirole (1997) formalized as the gap between formal and real authority in organizations.

    This sourceDistinguishes formal authority (right to decide) from real authority (effective control), showing a principal who cannot process every contingency loses real authority to better-informed agents

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