Yes, as the Wiki article correctly notes, highly complex systems of administration and bureaucracy had already developed by the Bronze Age.

To add a few relevant publications:

• Ancient Egyptian Administration edited by Juan Carlos Moreno García

• Officials and Administration in the Hittite World by Tayfun Bilgin

• Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria by Nicholas Postgate

• Mittelassyrische Verwaltung und Sozialstruktur by Stefan Jakob

• The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East edited by McGuire Gibson and Robert Biggs

• In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah by Nili Fox