authorityvary
Authorityvary is a concept used in organizational governance and political science to describe the degree to which authority is distributed or varies across agents, units, or contexts within a system. It encompasses both formal decision rights and informal influence, recognizing that authority is often not uniform and can shift with structure, roles, or circumstances.
The concept is analyzed along several dimensions. Centralization versus decentralization captures where most decisions are formally
Applications span organizational design, public administration, and platform governance. In corporations, for example, high authorityvary can
Authorityvary helps explain tensions that arise from mismatches between formal authority and actual practice, such as
See also: authority, delegation, governance, decentralization, centralization, organizational design, authority distribution.