Hence, software agents may provide the basics to implement self-controlled work, relieved from hierarchical controls and interference.

The joint venture is controlled through negotiations and coordination processes, while each firm would like to have hierarchical control.

They were firmly under hierarchical and magnate control, 'associations of leaders with few followers.'

There are also many Catholic newspapers and periodicals produced around the world by lay Catholics, which are independent of hierarchical control or oversight.

Combat at this level would involve hierarchical control.

And the Government, in which some 150 clerics try to rule by consensus, is notoriously bad at hierarchical control.

These forces introduced unresolvable contradictions into the political model of hierarchical, authoritarian control of civil society.

Progressive Adventists typically believe the present church structure is very "top heavy" with too many levels of leadership, and possibly too much hierarchical control.

You do not solve the problem by sending in more EU inspectors or by tightening up on the hierarchical controls. Quite different approaches are needed.

As such, governance networks distinguish themselves from the hierarchical control of the state and the competitive regulation of the market in at least three ways: