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A vertical arrangement of authority and reporting inside an organization, in which activity is coordinated by command and by position rather than by price, so that superiors direct subordinates through an ordered chain of offices. Williamson's 1991 Comparative Economic Organization treated hierarchy as one of the discrete ways to govern a transaction, set against the market, where the firm's internal ordering substitutes administrative direction for arm's length bargaining. Here the word names a mode of coordinating human work through ranked authority, not a rank that animals fight into, a scale of formal grammars, or an ordering of human needs.[1]
The ranked order of individuals in an animal group that settles who gets priority access to food, mates, and space, formed and held through repeated contests so that each member comes to occupy a place above or below the others. Schjelderup-Ebbe's 1922 study of the domestic hen, Beiträge zur Sozialpsychologie des Haushuhns, named this the pecking order and described how a stable rank list forms within a flock. The word here names the whole ranked structure of a group, distinct from a single animal's rank, and unrelated to a firm's chain of command, a scale of grammars, or a ladder of human needs.[2]
A nested classification of formal grammars and the languages they generate, ordered by generative power, so that each class strictly contains the ones below it: regular, context free, context sensitive, and recursively enumerable. Chomsky's 1956 Three Models for the Description of Language introduced this ranking and showed which kinds of rules a grammar needs to produce which kinds of language. The word here names a mathematical containment of language classes, fixed by proof rather than by contest or command, and it has nothing to do with a company's authority, an animal's rank, or a person's needs.[3]
A proposed ordering of human motives in which more basic needs, such as food and safety, must be reasonably met before higher ones, such as belonging, esteem, and self actualization, come to dominate behaviour. Maslow's 1943 A Theory of Human Motivation set out this ranked ordering and argued that a satisfied need ceases to motivate while an unmet lower need takes priority. The word here names a ranking of motives inside one person, a claim about what drives behaviour, not a structure of authority, an animal group's rank order, or a scale of grammars.[4]
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