Hybrid bureaucracies? Control and autonomy in small consultancy firms
(2010)Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- This research proposal outlines a plan for a 4 year multiple case study on the degree of bureaucracy and the type of control and autonomy in small partnership-based consultancy firms. These areas are particular interesting in relation to discussions of bureaucratic hybrids - most notably those of soft- and post-bureaucracies - where a literature review shows that there are empirical and theoretical discrepancies related to these ideas. As such more studies are needed and, it is argued, particular in small consultancy firms as these, by some, are seen as the ideal-types of the post-bureaucratic ideal.
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- author
- Pedersen, Kristoffer Riis
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2010
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Management of enterprises, small-sized firms, control, autonomy, soft-bureaucracy, post-bureaucracy, bureaucratic hybrids, KIF, bureaucracy, Consultancy firms, knowledge-intensive firms, Företagsledning, management
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 2169666
- date added to LUP
- 2010-06-04 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2012-11-12 11:52:42
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