ad-hocracy

A collective style democracy that is used as a means of control for a a place or a group of people. A participatory democracy much closer to the original Greek style than represenative democracy. Used by Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow to describe a system of government by people.

The university ad-hocracy decided on whether to inplement major changes to the cirruculm.

by romp March 21, 2004

adhocracy

An organization with little structure run by creating a series of temporary cross-functional teams to do specific tasks. Depending upon execution, the result is either efficient problem-solving or utter chaos.

By spliting up our department the boss has created an adhocracy.

by jeff jost August 8, 2006