centralizations
Gathering into headquarters
Centralizations are instances or processes of bringing things under unified control.
A company might undergo multiple centralizations—of its IT systems, its purchasing, its human resources—each consolidating scattered functions into a single authority.
The word often appears in discussions of organizational restructuring or government reform: The centralizations of power under the new regime alarmed observers.
Organized cooperative movement
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- harmonizationCreating consistency across systems
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- synchronizationAligning timing across systems
systematization · homogenization · streamlining · uniformity · normalization · codification · protocols · benchmarking
Ranked authority structure
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- supremacyHighest rank or power
governance · autocracy · dictatorship · monopoly · oligarchy · tyranny · authoritarianism · totalitarianism
Corporate combination
- amalgamationUniting into one
- integrationCombining into a whole
- fusionJoining into unity
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
synthesis · coalescence · unification · conglomeration · pooling · aggregation · combination · concentration
Organizational oversight and control
- officialdomCollective administrative authorities
- paperworkAdministrative written tasks
- proceduresSet methods for tasks
- departmentsSubdivisions of an organization
compliance · protocol · formalities · documentation · agency · institutional · organizational · clerks
Divided governmental authority system
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- statecraftArt of government
policy-making · executive · legislature · nation-state · devolution · autonomy · capitals · governorate
coordination
Organized cooperative movement
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- harmonizationCreating consistency across systems
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
synchronization · systematization · homogenization · streamlining · uniformity · normalization · codification · protocols · benchmarking · consistency
hierarchy
Ranked authority structure
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
supremacy · governance · autocracy · dictatorship · monopoly · oligarchy · tyranny · authoritarianism · totalitarianism · absolutism
merger
Corporate combination
- amalgamationUniting into one
- integrationCombining into a whole
- fusionJoining into unity
convergence · synthesis · coalescence · unification · conglomeration · pooling · aggregation · combination · concentration · absorption
administration
Organizational oversight and control
- officialdomCollective administrative authorities
- paperworkAdministrative written tasks
- proceduresSet methods for tasks
departments · compliance · protocol · formalities · documentation · agency · institutional · organizational · clerks · files
federalism
Divided governmental authority system
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
statecraft · policy-making · executive · legislature · nation-state · devolution · autonomy · capitals · governorate · ministry
- business consolidationmerger, mergers, acquisition, acquisitions, takeover
centralizationsdecentralizations
Transfers of authority outward
decentralization · dispersals · devolutions · dispersions · scatterings
centralizationsdispersals
Acts of spreading outward
scatterings · distributions · diffusions · disseminations · decentralizations
centralizationsdecentralizations
Transfers of authority outward
fragmentations · dissolutions · breakups · dispersals · partitions