The origins of bureaucracy: an anthropological perspective
By: Schott, Richard L.
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ArticlePublisher: 2000Description: p.53-78.Subject(s): Bureaucracy
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International Journal of Public AdministrationSummary: Many decades have passed since the first appearance of Max Weber's seminal study, in Wirtschaft and Gesellschaft, of the origins and characteristics of bureaucracy. His analysis was, naturally, dependent on the existing knowledge of his day; but the growth and maturity of archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines have shed much new light on the historical and social contexts in which bureaucratic organizations emerged. This article, using Sumerian civilization as a case in point, summarizes much of what we now know about the conditions under which bureaucracy first originated and flourished. In so doing, it identifies several major human developmental and social transformations - the hominid revolution, the agrarian revolution, and the urban revolution - which played vital roles in the evolution and expansion of the bureaucratic form of organization. - Reproduced
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Many decades have passed since the first appearance of Max Weber's seminal study, in Wirtschaft and Gesellschaft, of the origins and characteristics of bureaucracy. His analysis was, naturally, dependent on the existing knowledge of his day; but the growth and maturity of archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines have shed much new light on the historical and social contexts in which bureaucratic organizations emerged. This article, using Sumerian civilization as a case in point, summarizes much of what we now know about the conditions under which bureaucracy first originated and flourished. In so doing, it identifies several major human developmental and social transformations - the hominid revolution, the agrarian revolution, and the urban revolution - which played vital roles in the evolution and expansion of the bureaucratic form of organization. - Reproduced
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