...is based upon written documents ( 'the files' ) , which are preserved in their original or draught form. There is, therefore, a staff of subaltern officials...enterprise, 'the bureau' is often called 'the office.' In principle, the modern organization of the civil service separates the bureau from the private domicile...

...during the struggle against absolutism preceding the French Revolution.2 The word 'Bureau' suggests a body of officials actively engaged in a public office...respective apparatus of material implements and the files. It appears that the word bureaucracy as such has been derived from the word 'Bureau'. Morsteir Marx...

...office is based on written documents ("the files"), which are preserved in their original or draught form. There is, therefore, a staff of subaltern officials...enterprise, "the bureau" is often called "the office." In principle, the modern organization of the civil service separates the bureau from the private domicile...

...office is based upon written documents ('the files'), which are preserved in their original or draught form. There is, therefore, a staff of subaltern officials...enterprise, 'the bureau' is often called 'the office.' In principle, the modern organization of the civil service separates the bureau from the private domicile...

...a staff of subaltern officials and scribes of all sorts. The body of officials working in an agency along with the respective apparatus of material implements and the files, make up a bureau. . . . IV. Office management, at least all specialized office management— and such management is distinctly...