There are two main types of organisational structure used in businesses – hierarchical (or tall) and flat. A flat structure is an organisational structure with only a few layers of management.

The validity of model assumptions, such as those on the hierarchical structure and the distributions at the top and bottom levels, is crucial for the successful application of hierarchical models.

Able to traverse a website by its hierarchical structure. Also called "Web navigation," the menus replicate the site's structure and allow the user to go down multiple levels to select a page.

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The GEC reflects the underlying anatomical structure and the dynamical functional activity in an asymmetric matrix which ...

Lee, Michael Y., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less-Hierarchical Organizing." Research in Organizational Behavior 37 (2017): 35–58.

For instance, in image recognition, image data has a hierarchical structure. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) leverage this structure for image recognition. But if the logic and architecture ...