This distribution of power, in effect, has far-reaching implications in the fields of management, organizational behavior, and government.
The decisions arising from a process of decentralized decision-making are the functional result of group intelligence and crowd wisdom.
Decentralized decision-making also contributes to the core knowledge of group intelligence and crowd wisdom, often in a subconscious way à la Carl Jung's collective unconscious.
It is also studied in a specialized field of mathematics, wherein models are used to help make decisions in all human activities including the sciences and engineering.
Decentralization and centralization have been consistent themes throughout history pertaining to governmental authority and political theory.