Max Weber's Vision for Bureaucracy A Casualty of World War I /

• Main Author: Cochrane, Glynn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Economic sociology.; Public administration.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Military history.; Social Anthropology.; Cultural Anthropology.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Public Administration.; Social Theory.; History of Military.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy. It suggests that Weber's vision shares common components with the highly efficient Prussian General Staff military bureaucracy developed by Clausewitz and Helmuth von Moltke. Weber did not believe that Germany...