Definitions
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- noun business An
organizational system designed to beflexible andresponsive to theneeds of themoment rather than excessivelybureaucratic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an organization with little or no structure
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bureaucracy gets pushed aside by so-called "adhocracy," executive power/one-man shows flourish, with institutional checks and balances flouted.
Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite: WikiLeaks: Irresponsible or Indispensable? 2010
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In that alone, she says that the UN under Ban's leadership has seen "decline over a broad scale - from small things to more important" … "no more any congruity between responsibility and authority" … and calls today's UN an "adhocracy" in which "disintegrated and ill thought through
The Rosett Report 2010
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Western leaders, with some Arab leaders involved as well, had cobbled together a new adhocracy to counter, if not remove, a notorious monster attacking his people and threatening to send the "Arab spring" back into bloody winter.
William Bradley: Libyan War: New International 'Contact Group' Off to a Rugged Start William Bradley 2011
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Western leaders, with some Arab leaders involved as well, had cobbled together a new adhocracy to counter, if not remove, a notorious monster attacking his people and threatening to send the "Arab spring" back into bloody winter.
William Bradley: Libyan War: New International 'Contact Group' Off to a Rugged Start William Bradley 2011
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This, then, is the focus, as it were, of Obama's nascent doctrine, and the emerging international adhocracy on Libya, a blend of morality and pragmatism.
William Bradley: Libyan War: New International 'Contact Group' Off to a Rugged Start William Bradley 2011
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This, then, is the focus, as it were, of Obama's nascent doctrine, and the emerging international adhocracy on Libya, a blend of morality and pragmatism.
William Bradley: Libyan War: New International 'Contact Group' Off to a Rugged Start William Bradley 2011
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It was an adhocracy, as I've called it, but no single entity to ensure that U.S. dollars are well spent to help the Iraqis get on their feet.
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The future of government is to provide tools for empowerment, not to sit back and hope that laissez-faire adhocracy will suffice.
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The NWG was an adhocracy of intensely creative, sleep-deprived, idiosyncratic, well-meaning computer geniuses.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
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The NWG was an adhocracy of intensely creative, sleep-deprived, idiosyncratic, well-meaning computer geniuses.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
sciali commented on the word adhocracy
That's a great word!
May 25, 2008
super-logos commented on the word adhocracy
like Wordie?
August 20, 2008
dhuber commented on the word adhocracy
Although this neologism seems to be used in a positive way (i.e. the opposite of bureaucracy), I heard it today used in a more negative sense. Specifically that a lack of defined rules allowed all members of an organization to run with whatever idea that they had, leading to chaos.
November 5, 2015