The existence of a vertical hierarchy arises from the need for supervision, and this raises issues about the design of organizational structures and the role of incentives.

Specifically, the Workers' Opposition demanded that unionized workers (blue and white collar) should elect representatives to a vertical hierarchy of councils that would oversee the economy.

Production chains are often vertical hierarchies in which big multinational companies may be those who sell final products and set production standards for "lesser" producers.

Priesthood is structured as a vertical hierarchy with a clear chain of command.

Every refrigerator has the same horizontal and vertical hierarchy.

All societies have some basis for social stratification, and industrial societies are characterized by multiple dimensions to which some vertical hierarchy may be imputed.

Second, he fit into a vertical hierarchy, a chain of command running from the boss down to the lowliest menial.

It is this combined demand for more information at faster speeds that is now undermining the great vertical hierarchies so typical of bureaucracy.

The vertical hierarchy evokes a Darwinian climb toward the canonical works of early Modernism.