While I've only encountered his ideas in secondary sources, my understanding is that part of Max Weber's work was interested in how organizations form around a

While I've only encountered his ideas in secondary sources, my understanding is that part of Max Weber's work was interested in how organizations form around a mission or a set of values, how bureaucracies emerge and how they change the mission or values of the organization. I think the main idea was that you start with a mission, add people, add organization to coordinate the efforts, and pretty soon you have specialized roles and people's individual objectives become disembodied from the organization's original mission. This can have the cumulative effect of changing an organization's priorities and values over time.