Angelic Organization: Hierarchy and the Tyranny of Heaven
追溯了等级制度合法化的早期来源：伪狄奥尼修斯的天使等级思想，并质疑其至今仍影响组织理论和管理的假设，提出警惕等级暴政并考虑其他可能性。
This paper suggests that one of the first influential legitimations of hierarchy comes from the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, about 1500 years ago. Despite the fact that he was ordering angels, he suggests both ontological and political reasons for accepting that organization must equal hierarchy. This is an assumption that is rarely contested even today, and the idea of hierarchy is central to theories of organization, and justifications of managerialism. However, angels have been mutable creatures, and I employ some of their various incarnations in order to open up this 5th century common sense. I conclude by suggesting that angelic obedience should be treated with suspicion, and that other sorts of angels, particularly the fallen ones, might lead us away from the tyranny of hierarchy.