Structural Sources of Intraorganizational Power: A Theoretical Synthesis

Research on organizational power has become overly fragmented; a multitude of different sources of power have been identified.Consequently, an overall picture of intraorganizational power relations is difficult to obtain.In this paper, three structural sources of power-hierarchical authority, resource control, and network centrality-are integrated in a theoretical synthesis.The complex nature of intraorganizational power is revealed in the interactions, tensions, and conflicts among the three sources of power.