Five types of decentralization may be found: vertical and horizontal centralization, where all power rests at the strategic apex; limited horizontal decentralization (selective), where the strategic apex shares some power with the technostructure that standardizes everybody else’s work; limited vertical decentralization(paraltal); where managers of market-based units are delegated the power to control most of the decisions concerning their line units; vertical and horizontal decentralization,where most of the power rests in the operating core at the bottom of the structure: and selective vertical and horizontal decentralization, where the power over different decisions is dispersed widely in the organization-among managers, staff experts, and operators who work in groups at various levels in the hierarchy.