The general tendency of our times is to let the government interfere with private business, and this interference in many instances forces upon the private enterprise bureaucratic management.
No progress and reform can be expected in a state of affairs where the first step is to obtain the consent of the old men.
To say to the entrepreneur of an enterprise with limited profit chance, "Behave as the conscientious bureaucrats do" is tantamount to telling him to shun any reform. Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee; it is necessarily outside the field of bureaucratic activities.
Both industrial inefficiency and corruption are the consequences of methods of government interference with business as applied in Southern and Eastern European countries.
Bureaucratic management approach developed by Max Weber is not suitable for business organizations but may be suitable for government organizations.
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