IN THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM, Max Weber warned that
the rationalist spirit ushered in by asceticism had achieved a momentum of its own and that …

Weber's discussion of bureaucracy is generally taken as descriptive of organized social
structure within a rational-legal society. This is understandable; yet elsewhere in Weber's …

Weber operated with two conceptions of bureaucracy-the legal-rational and the charismatic-
which he never fully clarified. Consequently, he failed to see that a charismatic bureaucracy …

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 …

Modern management theory often forgets more than it remembers.'What's new?'is the
refrain. Yet, we suggest, there is much that we should already know from which we might …

Bureaucracy is challenged and examined from almost all quarters in organizational
analysis. As part of wide debate over postmodern cultural theorizations there is now much …

Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century.
Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the …

This article analyzes Weber's writing on the topic of collegiality in Economy and Society in
order to reintegrate the concept of collegiality with his other concepts of legitimate …

A principal tenet of modern social and economic theory has long been that a large
proportion of the production and distribution of goods and services takes place through …

Weber's analysis of bureaucracy is framed in terms of the legal and rational accounting
requirements of political and economic organizations. These, in turn, furnish legal …