Max Weber and the sociology of organization Reflections on a concept of pre-modern organization

In today's organizational sociology, organizations are usually regarded as late achievements of modernity in the history of mankind. Max Weber is repeatedly cited as the supposed guarantor of this thesis. But neither his type of "bureaucratic rule" nor his concept of "rational wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jakobs, Philipp
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Organization as a theory of modernity
  • American neo-institutionalism
  • Political economy of organization
  • Systems theory
  • History of concepts
  • Max Weber and the sociology of organization
  • On the reception of Max Weber in the sociology of organization
  • "Bureaucracy" and "rational labor organization" as organizations
  • "Bureaucratic rule"
  • Rational labor organization
  • On the concept of pre-modern organization
  • Internal structure of organizations
  • External relations of organizations
  • Struggling organizations.