The Process of Bureaucratization
American Journal of SociologyPublished 1 September 1977
Marshall W. Meyer, M. Craig Brown
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Abstract
Formalization of personnel procedures in 229 city, country, and state finance agencies is a function of era of origin and subsequent effects of the environment. Whereas origins and the environment account for the extent of formal personnel procedures, formalization in turn gives rise to multitier hierarchies and hierarchy to decentralized decision making. The effects of origins are due to greater openness to environmental pressures at the time of formation than later on.
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Social SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance