HIERARCHY

Risk Management and Decision Making Glossary

Risk Management and Decision Making — Hierarchy

Information on Hierarchy

Hierarchy is the principle according to which entities meaningfully treated as wholes are built up of smaller entities which are themselves wholes ... and so on. In hierarchy, emergent properties denote the levels (Checkland, 1993: 314).

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