recentralization

Returning authority centrally

Recentralization is the process of returning power, control, or resources to a central authority after a period of decentralization.

Organizations recentralize when distributed decision-making proves inefficient or inconsistent: The company's recentralization brought IT departments back under corporate control.

Governments may recentralize authority previously granted to regional bodies.

control

oversight

Supervision or inadvertent omission

command · coordination · enforcement · monitoring · direction · steering · dominance · grip · authority · micromanagement

governance

authority

Power to enforce obedience

regime · government · statecraft · bureaucracy · federalism · policy-making · legislature · executive · judiciary · parliament

process

restructuring

Rearranging an existing framework

streamlining · standardization · integration · harmonization · reorganization · redistribution · rebalancing · reorientation · transformation · overhaul

consolidation

merger

Corporate combination

convergence · coalescence · synthesis · fusion · alignment · homogenization · standardization · simplification · optimization · tightening

Opposites
distribution of power/authority

recentralizationdecentralization

Distributing power from center

devolution · federalization · localization · delegation · subsidiarity

directional process

recentralizationdecentralization

Distributing power from center

diffusion · scattering · disintegration

Family

center, central, centralize, centrality, centralization, centric, decentralize, decentralization, recenter

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