BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Power
- the ability to compel others to obey. Power refers to an authority or influence over others which, in an organizational context, may be derived from the holder's rank or status, or from their personality. According to Max Weber, power refers to the probability of imposing your own will despite resistance. It is closely linked to, but not the same as, leadership, authority, and responsibility. Organizational power is linked to organization structure and is an inherent part of any hierarchy or bureaucracy.
Wiktionary Definition for: Power
- Physical force or strength.
- Control and influence over another entity and its actions.
- Ex: ''He exerted his '''power''' upon his subordinates to obtain illicit, personal satisfaction.''
- Ex: ''The party has won '''power''' thanks to the influence of its charismatic leader.''
- physics A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
- physics A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror.
- (''Biblical tradition'') in Christian angelology, the fourth level of angels, ranked above archangels and below principality principalities
- mathematics A product of equal factors. Notation and usage: ''x''''n'', read as "''x'' to the power of n " or "''x'' to the n th power", denotes ''x'' × ''x'' × ... × ''x'', in which ''x'' appears n times, where n is called the exponent; the definition is extended to non-integer and complex exponents.
- Electricity supply.
- A nation having a strong military and/or economy.
- settheory Cardinality.
- transitive To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
Additional Resources
- Pfeffer: Freedom is the Cost of Power
- Pfeffer: Freedom is the Cost of PowerRE: Pfeffer: Freedom is the Cost of PowerAs always, the answer to an either-or question is a "both-and response". You can have freedom and power, if you define freedom as the ability to be at choice in any given moment (self-determination), and power as...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Indian groups move to fill power void
- Indian power companies are raising more than $6bn to fund generation projects over the next three years as acute energy shortages continue to affect businesses and the livelihood of the country's 1.2bn population.Indian businesses have lost $8.6bn in revenues for the 2008-09 financial year because of energy cuts, according...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?
- Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Can nuclear-generated electricity lead us off fossil fuels?After years of sitting in the energy dustbin, nuclear power is enjoying a renaissance. Countries such as France, Germany, Japan and China are furiously building nuclear plants to deliver cheap electricity and help combat climate change. Yet in the...
- News items 2009-10-08
- IBM's Power charge continues
- IBM's industry analyst meeting last week in Austin, Texas, covered the present and the future of its Power line. This is the system lineup once called the RS/6000 and pSeries into which was more recently folded the iSeries (previously AS/400, System 36, etc.) to form a new family called IBM...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Facebook Is No Friend of Power.com
- Power.com is a start-up based in Brazil that aims to be the portal through which people access all of their favorite social networking sites. Facebook would prefer that its members access it directly, thank you very much. On Wednesday, Facebook filed a complaint against Power.com in United States District Court...
- News items 2009-08-07
- DISMISSED: Facebook Wins Legal Victory Over Power.com
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Power.com lawsuit against Facebook has been dismissed by a US District Judge. If you haven't been following the data ownership scuffle, it's been a back-and-fourth mélee with Facebook first filing suit against Power.com for allegedly...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Power Windows Pose Great Risk to Children, Says Consumer Group
- A consumer group says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is greatly underestimating the number of people – including children — injured or killed by power windows. "It just kind of defies logic why anyone would allow a product to continue to be made in a fashion that is knowingly...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Osmotic power plant opens, with commercial scale ambitions
- The world's first osmotic power plant opened today at Tofte, outside of Oslo. And it included a royal kickoff from the Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, who pushed the button that set the turbines in motion. The plant has been developed over the past year by Norwegian state-owned electricity company...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Which Customer Contact Has Real Power?
- You may think you know who's got decision-making power inside your target customer, but chances are you're missing the real power players. Here are three profiles of mid-level players inside an IT company that's known for having a "collaborative" culture. You're selling a product that will be widely used throughout...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- POWER AND DATA SHARE LAN LINES.(PowerDsine's Power-Over-LAN UPS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
- The Power-Over-LAN system from PowerDsine is an uninterruptible-power-supply UPS based power hub connected to a LAN switch; it sends electrical power over the LAN's data line. The system allows sufficient power to flow over the data lines to oper The Power-Over-LAN system from PowerDsine...
- Research articles 2000-02-03
- Stand-off over power policy ; The Finance and the power ministries are at loggerheads over the new mega power policy. BT learns that the Finance Ministry has refused to extend tax concessions to captive power plants (CPPs) and merchant power plants (MPPs)
- The Finance and the power ministries are at loggerheads over the new mega power policy. BT learns that the Finance Ministry has refused to extend tax concessions to captive power plants CPPs and merchant power plants MPPs. The Finance and the power ministries are at loggerheads over the new mega...
- Research articles 2008-03-09
- Emerson Network Power and Pentadyne Demo High-Power Parallel Operation with Liebert FS Flywheel Power System
- Wireless News 01-28-2005 Emerson Network Power and Pentadyne Demo High-Power Parallel Operation with Liebert FS Flywheel Power System WIRELESS NEWS-28 January 2005-Emerson Network Power and Pentadyne Demo High-Power Parallel Operation with Liebert FS Flywheel Power System C2005 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com ...
- Research articles 2005-01-28
- Solar power from Sahara a step closer
- The German-led Desertec initiative believes it can deliver power to Europe as early as 2015 A $400bn (£240bn) plan to provide Europe with solar power from the Sahara moved a step closer to reality today with the formation of a consortium of 12 companies to carry out the...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Coal-Fired Power Technologies: Coal-Fired Power Options on the Brink of Climate Policies
- This study provides an overview of coal-fired power generation options. The deployment of coal power plants largely depends on their competitiveness compared to gas-fired power, nuclear power, etc. There are roughly four types of coal-fired power plants. Probably, most coal-fired power plants to be built within the next decades will...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Buoyed Optimism at Ocean Power Technologies
- The Company: Ocean Power Technologies, a renewable energy company specializing in offshore wave power technology The Filing: Form 10-K filed with the SEC on July 14 The Finding: Ocean Power is struggling to gain commercial acceptance for its proprietary PowerBuoy wave generation system, which extracts the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Xcel's Wind Power Experiments May Only Multiply Questions for the Industry
- There are a lot of ideas in the air to help bring wind power mainstream. The fickleness of the wind is a major inhibitor to its broad adoption; ideas for a solution include building massive transcontinental energy grids (after all, the wind is always blowing somewhere) and various schemes to...
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- Xcel's Wind Power Experiments May Only Multiply Questions for the Industry
- There are a lot of ideas in the air to help bring wind power mainstream. The fickleness of the wind is a major inhibitor to its broad adoption; ideas for a solution include building massive transcontinental energy grids (after all, the wind is always blowing somewhere) and various schemes to...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Battery Maker Boston Power Fuels Up With $55M
- On the heels of news that it had scored a deal with laptop maker Hewlett Packard, lithium-ion battery maker Boston Power says this morning it has raised $55 million to keep growing its business. The 4-year-old company has now raised a total of $125 million, making it one of the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Kemper, Aquila cover power risk.(Kemper Insurance Cos and Aquila offer coverage for power price spikes)(Brief Article)
- LONG GROVE, Ill.-Kemper Insurance Cos. has joined forces with power wholesaler Aquila Inc. to offer buyers or sellers of electric power coverage for unexpected spikes in the price of replacement power. Kemper's Power Generation Protection policy in LONG GROVE, Ill.-Kemper Insurance Cos. has joined...
- Research articles 2001-07-02
- Sola/Hevi-Duty/Best Power...:the brands of industrial power quality.(Company Profile)
- Sola/Hevi-Duty is a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of power protection conversion and transformer products, including Sola constant voltage power conditioners and power supplies, Hevi-Duty transformers, and Best Power UPS products fo Sola/Hevi-Duty is a...
- Research articles 1997-06-18
