In this theoretical study Professor Abrahamsson creates a process model of organizations based on the idea that organizations are instruments for the pursuit of class or group interests. The book is composed of three main sections: (1) a review of the existing theories of bureaucracy with special emphasis on classical Marxism, Weber and Robert Michels; (2) a critique of the accepted systems theory of organizations which points to a basis for the development of an alternative theory; and (3) a summary of the "radical democratic"/"democratic elitism" debates with a critique of the assumptions of the former school. "A theoretically sophisticated critique of organization theory from a coherent, scholarly perspective...one of th