… We will explore the practical nature of Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Studying experience of
Kafkaesque bureaucracy as practice rather than as metaphor informs organization studies about …

… identified by academic critiques of bureaucratic failings (eg bureaucratic rigidity, which has
its … Kafkaesque elements represent forces in direct tension with core Weberian bureaucratic …

… First, this article contributes to the emerging literature on Kafkaesque bureaucracy by
explaining the process by which street-level bureaucracy is able to create and sustain the fantasy …

… While Weber is known for his scientific analysis of bureaucracy as a form of rational …
inscrutability of bureaucracy to such a degree that Kafka has become an adjective – Kafkaesque – …

… on Kafkaesque bureaucracy and power. In the literature, and in everyday life, we tend to
assume that Kafkaesque bureaucracies … That they represent a failure in which bureaucrats have …

… cage, this article contributes to public administration studies by fitting Weberian and
Kafkaesque understandings of the bureaucratic forms into an emancipatory critical realist model of …

… that the Kafkaesque elements of bureaucracy we have described are widespread across
organizations. Patterns of organizational functioning in which the Kafkaesque characteristics …

… another typical feature of bureaucracy is copious documentation. … , is to show how bureaucratic
cultures are perpetuated in … resisting bureaucratic domination. This is important because …

… comparative trajectories of industrial administrative bureaucratic systems through the end of
… human societies are caught in inflexible bureaucratic systems that are unable to plan for the …

… The image that is conjured up when we refer to something as Kafkaesque is one of dark,
impenetrable forces of labyrinthine complexity; forces that might rip us from our beds at night …