ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors demonstrate the central nature of problems of power in the development of the bureaucratic phenomenon. They examine the resources, that are provided for people by the successive theories that have been proposed as explanations of the functioning of organizations. The authors analyze the data or their case studies—and first, the Industrial Monopoly case study—with a view to understanding the interrelations of both worlds within an integrated theory of organization. They utilize the sketches of group strategy in discussing the nature of power within an organization. The authors suggest that studies be made on the repartition of roles and on formal regulations within an organization on the basis of such assumptions. They start with the mechanistic model of a rational system of organization and show that such a model did not make it possible to understand and to place properly the kind of power relationships people are directly experiencing everywhere.
