The term is also used in a civilian management context describing comparable hierarchical structures of authority.
"[citation needed] In this model, social capital is viewed as being mobilized in response to orders that move through the hierarchy leading to the phrase "command and control".
In part to address these problems, much modern management science has focused on reducing reliance on command hierarchy especially for information flow, since the cost of communications is now low, and the cost of management mistakes is higher.
It is also easier to replace managers, so they have a personal interest in more distributed responsibility and perhaps more consensus decision making.
This includes the notion of mission agreement, to support "edge in" as well as "top-down" flow of intent.