What is a bureaucracy?
The obvious place to begin to investigate whether this is true or not is a definition of the word ‘bureaucracy’. Let’s give our thanks to the contributors of the bureaucracy article: “Bureaucracy is the structure and set of regulations in place to control activity, usually in large organizations and government. As opposed to adhocracy, it is represented by standardized procedure (rule-following) that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body, formal division of powers, hierarchy, and relationships. In practice the interpretation and execution of policy can lead to informal influence.” (Disclaimer: No, those links were not there in the original article!
