superhierarchy

plural superhierarchies

1. A higher or superior hierarchy.

   Now, Ben says there is a need to develop a superhierarchy of good management.

   1965, Simulation, Volume 5, SAGE Publications, page 74

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   What happens to Australian wool or Bolivian tin has profound and immediate repercussions in New York, London, and Des Moines. The world is becoming more and more a galaxy of economic superhierarchies which coordinate local subhierarchies.

   1953, John M. Pfiffner, Public Administration, The Ronald Press Company, page 402

   Thus, when several bureaucracies coexist (governmental, academic, ecclesiastic) in the absence of a superhierarchy to coordinate their interactions, the whole set of institutions will tend to form a meshwork of hierarchies, articulated mostly through local and temporary links.

   1998, The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture, Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN, page 280