Two types of bureaucracy: Enabling and coercive

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-89

  Adler, Paul S ^a   Borys, Bryan ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/2393986     Document Type: Article

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