Two co$-$workers at Nortel came up with an idea for renting software over the Internet. Nortel's top management liked the idea and set up a special division called Channelware devoted to taking the idea and making a new product.

The ability of the Nortel top management to create this new division and assign employees to it is a result of their having $\_\_\_\_\_$ power.

coercive

conceptual

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legitimate