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100			_aLamound, David A
245			_aThe irrational use of Weber's ideal types
520			_aMax 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
650			_a Civil Service
650			_aBureaucracy
773			_aAustralian Journal of Public Administration
909			_a1925
999			_c1925 _d1925