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Bureaucracy is an organisational form that functions according to written rules and procedures, impersonally and uniformly applied through a hierarchy of authority that can continue to exist through the positions and roles that it establishes by legal means, beyond the individuals who temporarily occupy them at any given time. It is these characteristics, amongst others, that have enabled organisations as diverse as professionalised firms and the civil service to emerge and expand as bureaucratic organisations from the twentieth century onward. Bureaucracy remains a central feature of most advanced societies, as well as a central feature of all complex organisations and their management. It continues to be a central term in the vocabulary of critical management studies.
Author(s): Casler C, Pierides D
Editor(s): McCann, L; Bozkurt, Ö; Finn, R; Granter, E; Hunter, C; Kivinen, N; Kumar, A; Wierman, B
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies
Year: 2025
Pages: 36-41
Print publication date: 15/04/2025
Acceptance date: 18/10/2024
Series Title: Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Place Published: Cheltenham
URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377721.00015
DOI: 10.4337/9781800377721.00015
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781800377714
