ture will thus be information-based. This also suggests a less hierarchical structure and more independence because information can be easily shared among different entities in the organization.
The bureaucratic structures analyzed by Max Weber developed in the nineteenth century. The structure was hierarchical with a leadership figure at the top, and Weber always used the term charisma to refer to an extraordinary quality possessed by persons or objects such as is thought to give the persons or objects a unique, magical power, making them leaders. He identified three major types, and in each there is a description of the man who possesses genuine charisma and exercises domination, but this power of command differs from legal and traditional domination in that it is extraordinary. Weber offers a threefold division of power: 1) power on the basis of constellations of interest, such as on the market or in status-groups; 2) power on the basis of established authority, such as legal, traditional, or charismatic domination; and 3) power on the basis of leadership, or the extraordinary qualities of a person and the identification of followers with
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