A BFO-based Framework for Authority in Healthcare Corporations

We have been seeking an account for healthcare corporations based on BFO Framework. One of our interests within this general context is how to explain authority. We use theories of intention, agency, and plans to come up with an alternative to understand authority in healthcare corporations. Authority is not present in well-known theories of agency and intention, which address small contexts.

Usual approaches to agency and intention are not enough to deal with authority in the current context. To explain authority in large contexts — full of alienated individuals — we use plans. A master plan authorizes someone to plan for others with respect to some subject. A theory of plans is an alternative to explain deontic powers within ontologies.