Although Weber's ideal typical model of bureaucracy was developed primarily in relation to
the state, studies of private sector organizations typically adhere to its formal-rational …

Weber's ideal typical model of bureaucracy constitutes the starting point for most scholarship
on organizations. Much organizational behaviour, however occurs outside this formalized …

The metaphor of Kafkaesque bureaucracy has attracted the imagination of organization
theorists for decades. While the critical and metaphorical approach offers vibrant insights …

Organization theory, from the late nineteenth century till perhaps the last two decades, has
been in effect organization-design theory. It has carried both descriptive and normative …

The controversy around Weber's theory of bureaucracy that occupied post-war American
organization theorists serves as a backdrop to consider differences in the institutional and …

Reports of the demise of the bureaucratic form of organization are greatly exaggerated, and
debates about bureaucracy's functions and effects therefore persist. For many years, a broad …

Is there a metaphor for bureaucracy relevant to organizations in the 1990s? The author
explores this question by reconstructing Weber's" iron cage." After defining bureaucracy …

While the work of Max Weber was an omnipresent guiding force in the early development of
organizational theory, contemporary scholars have seemingly little connection to that …

It is doubtful whether Max Weber would have been appreciative of his current status as the
father of organisation theory. Weber did not develop the concept of bureaucracy as part of a …

Weber's understanding of bureaucracy, despite substantial qualification and revision,
remains the dominant paradigm for the study of administration and formal organizations. We …