the gathering together, at a corporate headquarters, of specialist functions such as finance, personnel and information technology. Centralization is usually undertaken in order to effect economies of scale and to standardize operating procedures throughout the organization. Centralized management can become cumbersome and inefficient and may produce communication problems. Some organizations have shifted toward decentralization to try to avoid this.
The process of concentrating control of a business’s operations at its centre, usually its headquarters.
Centralization in phonetics refers to a vowel being a central vowel, the shift of a vowel in this direction, or to a vowel being more central than some point of reference. The diacritic for this in the International Phonetic Alphabet is the dieresis, .