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Value-Rational Authority and Professional Organizations: Weber's Missing Type.
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In this paper, the concept of value-rational authority and an ideal type organization based on it was proposed and compared to autonomous professional organizations in order to show that the segmented structure of both reflect a compromise between organizational adaptation and commitment to ideology.Abstract:
Roberta Lynn Satow Weber discussed four types of social action and legitimacy, but only three types of authority. This paper develops the concept of value-rational authority and constructs an ideal type organization based on it. Protestant churches are compared to autonomous professional organizations in order to show that the segmented structure of both reflect a compromise between organizational adaptation and commitment to ideology. Professional organizations are viewed as value-rational organizations rather than deviant forms of bureaucracy.'read more
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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
TL;DR: The Theory of Social and Economic Organization as mentioned in this paper is based on Weber's philosophical inquiries into the nature of authority and how it is transmitted, and identifies three types of authority: the charismatic, based on the individual qualities of a leader and reverence for them among his or her followers; the traditional based on custom and usage; and the rational-legal, according to the rule of objective law.
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Professionalization and bureaucratization
TL;DR: In this article, structural and attitudinal aspects of professionalization and the organizational settings in which many professional occupations exist are analyzed, and it is suggested that the presence of professionals in an organization affects the structure of the organization, while at the same time, the organizational structure can affect professionalization process.
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Science and the Social Order
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors see science as a social activity, and see the problems of the social control of science as being planned and unplanned, as opposed to spontaneous and spontaneous.
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Science and the social order
TL;DR: In this article, the authors see science as a social activity, and see the problems of the social control of science as being planned and unplanned, as opposed to spontaneous and spontaneous.