For Weber, bureaucracy was an ideal type construct, which he used to understand the nature of transformation in social organisations through the development of human history. His view was that all organised efforts that humans make or have made in the past will eventually lead to a more legal-rational type of organisation which was the bureau. According to him it was the most rational type organisation that could ever exist and clearly it was a pure-type which could not be found in real world. I

Bureaucratic Rationality Revisited
Sumit Kumar (ijssrrjournal@gmail.com)
