How to Analyze Post-Bureaucratic, New, or Alternative Organizational Forms

Monday, 7 July 2025: 11:50
Location: SJES005 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
Robert JUNGMANN, Trier University, Germany
Weber and his ideal type of formal hierarchical bureaucracy is widely recognized as the core of modern organization theory. Today, organization research often focuses on organizing as connecting heterogeneous actors pointing to “new” organizational forms, e.g. projects, networks, or self-organized teams. I aim to outline and compare different conceptual tools to analyze such forms without ignoring formal hierarchical elements.