Stanford Graduate School of Business Bureaucracy vs. Creativity? Bureaucracies … “lead to an over- concern with strict adherence to regulations, which induces timidity, conservatism, and technicism.” -- Merton 1968 “[R]ationalized and specialized office work will eventually blot out personality, the calculable result, the ‘vision’” -- Schumpeter 1950 “[T]he bureaucratic method of transacting business and the moral atmosphere it spreads... exert a depressing influence on the most active minds.” -- Schumpeter 1950 Are large, established firms where great ideas go to die?
