Bureaucracy for the 21st Century: Clarifying and Expanding Our View of Bureaucratic Organization
这篇综述指出官僚制研究落后于现实,梳理了三种主要视角,并提出三条未来研究路径,帮助学者理解官僚制在当代的多种形态。
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.