English

Adverb

adhocratically ‎(comparative more adhocratically, superlative most adhocratically)

1. (business, organizational theory) In an adhocratic manner.
   • 1981, David R. Hampton, Contemporary Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, ISBN 978-0-07-025935-5, page 534:

     That one department is managed bureaucratically and the other adhocratically can make their interacting or interfacing difficult.

   • 1992, Thomas Hehir and Thomas Latus, editors, Special Education at the Century's End: Evolution of Theory and Practice since 1970 (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series; 23), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Educational Review, ISBN 978-0-916690-25-0, page 256:

     As such, depending on the degree to which the particular school is more adhocratically or bureaucratically oriented, mainstreaming for these students more or less represents symbolic integration, primarily in nonacademic classrooms […]

   • 1994, August T. Horvath; Janet Fulk, “Information Technology and the Prospects for Organizational Transformation”, in Branislav Kovačić, editor, New Approaches to Organizational Communication, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-1917-5, page 123:

     The decentralized organizational forms suggested by communications-cost theories may not have the totally uncoordinated character of markets, but can replace limited, carefully planned communication channels with much more numerous and flexible channels, both laterally and vertically. In one popular view, information flows can be dictated "adhocratically" by needs at any given moment […].

   • 2005, Richard A. Narad, “The Multicratic Organization: A Model for Management of Functional Interdependence”, in Thomas D. Lynch and Peter L. Cruise, editors, Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach (Public Administration and Public Policy; 116), 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-3834-2, page 768:

     The primary function of the multicratic lead agency in the extreme application is to plan the system, to adhocratically procure participating organizations, and to manage their relationships similar to the way that the management of a hierarchical organization integrates organizational parts.

Related terms

• adhocracy
• adhocrat
• adhocratic
• adhocratical (rare)