Centralisation

Centralisation, or centralization (see spelling differences), is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, become concentrated within a particular location and/or group or keeping all of the important decision making powers within head office or the center of the organization.

The term has a variety of meanings in several fields. In political science, centralisation refers to the concentration of a government's power – both geographically and politically – into a centralised government. In neuroscience, centralisation refers to the evolutionary trend of the nervous system to be partitioned into a central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. In business studies, centralisation and decentralisation refer to where decisions are made in the chain of command.

See also

• Centralization (phonetics)
• Decentralization
• Democratic centralism
• Nation-state
• Nueva Planta decrees – a series of centralizing royal decrees issued in Spain in the early 18th century