well like any other business.....there is a structure of command.
You have your global chief.....
Then national person
Regional person
district person
then individiual head of that local building, office or studio person
Then you have the people who work in that local area.
All that being said....regional and district level people don't get involved into the day to day stuff of one particular studio or office. Like me.....for my company, I am regional level, New York to Maine is my kingdom.
I get bi-weekly status reports from all the district heads in my area, which is about 10 district heads. They get their reports from the local level offices, which in total is about 487 offices.
99% of the time, I don't have contact with local level people. Don't interact with them, too many of them. However I report to national. Any and every
PR mistake goes to national, and they come crashing down on me if it is in my region. Then I come crashing down on the district head whose district it happened in, they in turn crash down on that office that messed up.
So it pretty much goes like that. For the company I work for, no way in the world would we ever let somebody on the local level speak on behalf of the company. That is why companies have spokesmen and spokeswomen for.
And usually, majority of the time, they are accompanied by the company lawyers. Because what ever is said, it goes on public record and the company as a whole is held liable for it.
So in a nutshell it all comes down to liability issues.