The practice of obtaining more power, responsibility, or staff within an organization for the purposes of self-aggrandizement.
Example sentencesExamples
But even with management's attention directed towards empire-building, the financial performance has remained reasonably buoyant.
He argues that this policy of empire-building is shortsighted and not conducive to the long-term interest of either the governors or the governed.
To some observers, the organisation exhibits many features of empire-building that have no place in the state sector and make change difficult to execute.
His aspirations to become Australia's dominant newspaper owner was branded as empire-building.
But the speed and style of his empire-building led to accusations of a lack of consultation from within the organisation as well as from the powerful club chairmen.
Not long after, the well-known process of empire-building demanded that the Arts Council acquire a new (and not necessarily improved) visual-arts department.
They are prone to empire-building, which encourages them to support additional regulation and the consequential increases of their resources.
Private firms, particularly those with some degree of market power, may engage in empire-building or deviate from profit maximization in other ways for considerable periods of time.
He said this power-mongering had led to empire-building, where sports structures were used as power bases for launching attacks and counter-attacks.
These and other realities carry a stark message: the same capitalist, empire-building forces that impose the wars abroad also impose the war at home.
Definition of empire-building in US English:
empire-building
noun
The practice of obtaining more power, responsibility, or staff within an organization for the purposes of self-aggrandizement.
Example sentencesExamples
Not long after, the well-known process of empire-building demanded that the Arts Council acquire a new (and not necessarily improved) visual-arts department.
His aspirations to become Australia's dominant newspaper owner was branded as empire-building.
These and other realities carry a stark message: the same capitalist, empire-building forces that impose the wars abroad also impose the war at home.
He said this power-mongering had led to empire-building, where sports structures were used as power bases for launching attacks and counter-attacks.
To some observers, the organisation exhibits many features of empire-building that have no place in the state sector and make change difficult to execute.
Private firms, particularly those with some degree of market power, may engage in empire-building or deviate from profit maximization in other ways for considerable periods of time.
They are prone to empire-building, which encourages them to support additional regulation and the consequential increases of their resources.
But the speed and style of his empire-building led to accusations of a lack of consultation from within the organisation as well as from the powerful club chairmen.
He argues that this policy of empire-building is shortsighted and not conducive to the long-term interest of either the governors or the governed.
But even with management's attention directed towards empire-building, the financial performance has remained reasonably buoyant.