given organization does not necessarily imply that the organization is nonbureaucratic. It may be an immature rather than a fully developed bureaucracy.
Weber’s work on bureaucracy was not translated into English and made generally available until 1946. Still, his influence was phenomenal. Usually credited with being the “father” of modern sociol- ogy, Weber’s work emphasized a new methodological rigor that could advance the study of organiza- tions. Weber himself played a crucial role in helping to write a constitution for the Weimar Republic in Germany just before his death in 1920. The experience of the ill-fated Weimar Republic, certainly not attributable in any way to Weber, added perhaps another point of support to Woodrow Wilson’s contention that it is harder to run a constitution than to frame one. Yet the clarity and descriptive quality of Weber’s analysis of bureaucratic organizations provided both orthodox theorists and critics with a reference point from which to debate both the good and bad effects of bureaucratic structures.