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CHARISMATIC, COLLECTIVIST, ANO COLLEGIAL ORGANIZATIONS. SOME RECENT EXTENSIONS OF MAX WEBER'S TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS This article looks at three recent attempt to describe organizations barely discussed by Max Weber. These organizational types are Biggart's (1989) "charismatic organizations," Rothschild-Whitt's (1979) "collectivist organizations," and Waters's (1989) "collegial organizations." The organizations captured by these ideal types are not based on rational-legalistic authority. lnstead, they describe such organizations in which the structure of the organization does not interfere with some form of value rationality. These organizational types show that value rationality may well survive within some organizational structures.

TEAM BUILDING, SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF MANAGEMENT This paper describes the way in which a change to team organization was reflected in, and simultaneously affected, the way in which the management's work is organized. Using ethnographic data from the House, as I will call this workplace, located in Helsinki, this paper shows how the House's organization changed from a traditional bureaucratic model into a self-directed team-based organization. Out of the House's four most significant managers, two took an active tack, and participated to the meetings arranged by the two active teams. Two other managers, in turn, largely withdrew from team work. Consequently, the two active managers' influence in the House was enhanced to that extent in which the House's most important managerial processes were delegated into new teams.