01064pab a2200133 454500 180718b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Lamound, David A The irrational use of Weber's ideal types Max Weber's model of bureaucracy has been widely criicised as incapable of adequately capturing empirical reality, internally inconsistent, and inappropriately juxtaposed with the concepts of efficiency and with the concepts of efficiency and reationality. This article first argues that much of this criticism can be disregarded as irrelevant, insofar as it has been largely based on misinterpretation of Weber's conceptions, and then explores a variety of reasons for this misinterpretation. It is argued that the fundamental problem is the consideration of Weber's model in the context of a microanalysis of organisation, since it was not constructed by Weber for use in this way. Weber was an historical sociolo Civil Service Bureaucracy Australian Journal of Public Administration 1925 1925 1925 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Issue no: 49(4), Dec.90, p.464-73 AR1925 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR