Comment on Langton's "Ecological Theory of Bureaucracy.".

Perrow, Charles

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Publication Date: 1985

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Comment on Langton's "Ecological Theory of Bureaucracy."

Perrow, Charles

Administrative Science Quarterly, v30 n2 p278-83 Jun 1985

This critique of John Langton's behavioral evolutionist account of the development of bureaucracy in the 18th Century British pottery industry contends that the evolutionary explanation rests on unexamined functionalist assumptions which overlook social costs and the mediating effects of the class structure and the profit motive. (TE)

Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Ecology, Economic Change, Economic Development, European History, Evolution, Marxian Analysis, Social History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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