Yes, there is a point to all of this. The key article is the business case study from Huizenga Business School at Nova Southeastern. Very handy. W.L. Gore & Associates is the fave of most postmodern organizational theorists, who see the company’s lack of official hierarchy as the true networked organization. I believe that Gore has a great culture, but …
Bureaucratic Hierarchy vs. Hierarchy
Scheidegger describes a distinction between “bureaucratic hierarchy” and “hierachy per se” within organizations which shows how people currently understand the term “bureaucracy”.