Bureaucracy is a central component in many important debates in organization theory. First suggested as a way to efficiently manage organizations that would replace favouritism and partiality with clear, transparent rules (Weber, 1922), the growth of bureaucracy was seen to lead to the domination of ‘rational matter of factness’ (Weber, 1922; 240). Since its inception, bureaucracy has been inte...

Kurt Lewin famously proclaimed, “There is nothing so practical as good theory”, signifying that a good theory lends itself to being applied in a variety of contexts. This paper uses the lens of Max Weber’s theory of bureaucracy to examine contemporary EGovernment related research and literature. Two major, prevailing themes emerge from this exercise. The first theme that emerges is that IT (inf...

The management literature is presenting a most critical view of the bureaucratic organization form as what is essentially incapable of responding to external changes and providing meaningful work assignment for its co-workers. This negative image of bureaucracy is largely taken for granted and are only occasionally supported by empirical evidence. This paper presents a study of how co-workers i...

A change from bureaucracy as a machine to lively is needed for future VUCA. Being ”agile” defence strategy handle disruptions. Transformation of local government hierarchical system an agile while maintaining stability and sustainably delivering services citizens in diverse spaces times necessitates leveraging range factors. We conducted systematic literature review explore enabling factors tha...

Research on representative bureaucracy has failed to deal with whether or not representative bureaucracies produce minority gains at the expense of nonminorities. Using a pooled time series analysis of 350 school districts over six years, this study examines the relationship between representative bureaucracy and organizational outputs for minorities and nonminorities. Far from finding that rep...

“Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are the hardest to destroy...As an instrument of rationally organizing authority relations, bureaucracy was and is a power instrument of the first order for one who controls the bureaucratic apparatus...Where administration has been completely bureaucratized, the resulting system of domination is practically indestructi...

In addressing Third World housing problems, the voluntary sector, characterized by voluntarism and community involvement, plays a crucial role in filling the gaps left by the public and private sectors. Although the voluntary sector is more flexible than public bureaucracy and is not constrained by profit-making goals of the private sector, it suffers from voluntary failure and faces accountabi...