The empirical determination of the spacetime metric by measurement requires choice of some "metrical indicators": this can only be done by laying down a coordinative definition stipulating, e.g., that the metrical notion of length is coordinated to some physical object or process.
The coordinative mechanism of tradition, resting as it does on the perpetuation of social roles, is marked by a characteristic changelessness in the societies in which it is dominant.
Thus, The Wealth of Nations offered the first precise description of both the dynamics and the coordinative processes of capitalism.
The alterations did not affect the driving motive of the system or its reliance on market forces as its coordinative principles.
Some of these, such as the compounds in which a modifying noun precedes its head noun, continued ancient patterns (thalassóvrakhi 'sea rock,' vunópulo 'mountain lad'); coordinative compounds of the type common in Modern Greek, though rare in earlier periods, are also found (aristódhipnon 'lunch and dinner,' compare Modern Greek andróyino 'man and wife,' makheropíruna 'knives and forks').
The arrows connecting the two divisional plans represent the coordinative communications that tie them together on matters of mutual concern.
This coordinative mechanism worked reasonably well when the larger objectives of the system called for the kind of crash planning often seen in a war economy.
Each région is administered by a governor whose role is coordinative and who is assisted by two deputy governors, one dealing with administration and the other with development.
That creative, revolutionary, and sometimes disruptive capacity of capitalism can be traced in no small degree to the market system that performs its coordinative task.
From the economist's perspective, the period was marked by the breakdown of a coordinative mechanism of centralized command, the rise of the mixed pressures of tradition and local command characteristic of the feudal manor, and the gradual displacement of those pressures by the material penalties and rewards of an all-embracing market network.
A simple coordinative machinery was also decided upon.
