Max Weber and the sociology of organization

Philipp Jakobs is a research assistant at the Chair of Cultural Sociology at the University of Bonn, where he is doing his doctorate on economic organizations from a historical-sociological perspective.

• Organization as a theory of modernity.- American neo-institutionalism.- Political economy of organization.- Systems theory.- History of concepts.- Max Weber and the sociology of organization.- On the reception of Max Weber in the sociology of organization.- "Bureaucracy" and "rational labor organization" as organizations.- "Bureaucratic rule".- Rational labor organization.- On the concept of pre-modern organization.- Internal structure of organizations.- External relations of organizations.- Struggling organizations.