Synopsis Max Weber (1864-1920) is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding social scientists of contemporary times. His bureaucratic model in the words of Dwight Walds, is the dominant paradigm in administrative sciences. The present work is a profound analytical treatise on the administrative thought of Max Weber from the perspectives of organisational analysis as well as from a comparative viewpoint. The relevance of Weber's analysis to the present-day complex public administrative systems has been intensively dealt with in this remarkable research effort by Dr. Sanjay Kumar Sinha.