TY - JOUR
T1 - Bureaucracy for the 21st Century
T2 - Clarifying and Expanding Our View of Bureaucratic Organization
AU - Monteiro, Pedro
AU - Adler, Paul S.
N1 - Published online: 21 December 2021.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - This review aims to redress the growing gap between the receding discourse on bureaucracy and bureaucracy’s persistence as an organizational form in our era. Reviewing organizational research on bureaucracy, we find three main perspectives, which developed in succession but persist in parallel: bureaucracy as an organizing principle, as a paradigmatic form of organization, and as one type of structure among others. We argue that these three perspectives should be expanded and brought into closer dialogue to overcome the de-contextualized, reified, and narrow ways bureaucracy is often viewed. We offer three pathways for future research and discuss how we can make better sense of the various guises in which bureaucracy appears today.
AB - This review aims to redress the growing gap between the receding discourse on bureaucracy and bureaucracy’s persistence as an organizational form in our era. Reviewing organizational research on bureaucracy, we find three main perspectives, which developed in succession but persist in parallel: bureaucracy as an organizing principle, as a paradigmatic form of organization, and as one type of structure among others. We argue that these three perspectives should be expanded and brought into closer dialogue to overcome the de-contextualized, reified, and narrow ways bureaucracy is often viewed. We offer three pathways for future research and discuss how we can make better sense of the various guises in which bureaucracy appears today.
U2 - 10.5465/annals.2019.0059
DO - 10.5465/annals.2019.0059
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1941-6520
VL - 16
SP - 427
EP - 475
JO - Academy of Management Annals
JF - Academy of Management Annals
IS - 2
ER -