Faced with this power deficiency, the 'human relations' movement can be characterized as a search for other sources and forms of influence. However, one cannot sufficiently compensate for the shortcomings and limited achievements of a highly technical instrument like formal power with forms of communication and interaction which are less technical, more concretely focused, and more context-dependent. It will never be possible to create out of aggregations of influence, arising from intensified interaction, an equivalent for the organizational and societal achievements of technicalized, context-free, applicable and innovatively initiated power.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 808