Bureaucracy: Is it efficient? Is it not? Is that the question? Uncertainty reduction - An ignored element of bureaucratic rationality

Administration and Society

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 700-723

  Gajduschek, Gyorgy ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/0095399702239171     Document Type: Article

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