What is the source of authority?

权力的源泉在哪里？

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Modern Enterprise theory regards firms as a kind of special facility to allocate the resources in authority way but fails to explain the source of authority.

现代企业理论把企业当作以权威方式来配置资源的特殊装置，却没有真正解释权威的来源问题。

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Some scholars argue that the concentration of water within the urban core of these sites provided a centralized source of political authority for Maya elites based largely on controlled water access.

一些学者认为，集中在这些地点的城市核心区的水资源为玛雅精英提供了一个集中的政治权力来源，而这些权力主要是基于对水资源的控制。

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What is the source of authority?

权力的源泉在哪里？

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We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

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There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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But their connection to the ultimate source of authority has been stretched to the breaking point.

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However, the true source of authority at any point in time only uses these structures as conduits for the leaders of the dominant member firms to exert control over weaker firms.

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On the other hand, as firms have become more multinational, generating profits worldwide, the claim of any particular tax authority that its jurisdiction is the source of this profit becomes harder to sustain.

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