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Bureaucracy, Sociology of
Amanda K. Damarin
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The authors reviewed the major arguments, beginning with Max Weber's foundational ideal type and addressing subsequent work on bureaucracy's informal and cultural dimensions, external influences, internal contradictions, and pitfalls of societal bureaucratization.Abstract:
Bureaucracy is an organizational form that became dominant in business, government, and other arenas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since then, extensive debates among sociologists and others have centered on its nature, rationality, and social impact. This article reviews the major arguments, beginning with Max Weber's foundational ideal type and addressing subsequent work on bureaucracy's informal and cultural dimensions, external influences, internal contradictions, and pitfalls of societal bureaucratization. While some have proclaimed bureaucracy's demise amidst today's postindustrial economy, evidence suggests that it lives on – with consequences that are just as ambivalent as in Weber's time.read more
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Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
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