Expert Authority in Crisis: Making Authority Real Through Struggle

Allocation of Decision-making Authority

This paper addresses the question of what determines where in a firm’s hierarchy investment decisions are made. We present a simple model of a CEO and a division manager to analyze when the CEO will choose to allocate decision-making authority over an investment decision to a division manager. Both the CEO and the division manager have private information regarding the profit maximizing investm...

An authority for crisis coordination and accountability.

Coordination through Authority vs Consensus

One of the deÞning characteristics of organizations is the presence of a managerial hierarchy which coordinates economic activity by use of authority. Organizations, however, also frequently delegate decisions to groups of agents committees, cross-functional teams as opposed to managers. This paper proposes a model of organizational decision-making with endogenous communication costs and puts f...

Formal and Real Authority in Organizations

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Scientific Authority in Islam’s Political Thought

In Islam’s political thought, principles of “preserving Muslims’ dignity” and “negating domination of foreigners” are of especial importance. Scientific authority is an important necessity for those principles. This article is aimed at clarification of the process of scientific jihad and study of position and infrastructures of scientific authority in Islam’s political thought. Taking Islam’s p...