Managing corporate lifecycles : How organizations grow, age, and die / [print]
Ichak Kalderon Adizes.
- first edition.
- Santa Barbara, California : Adizes Institute Publishing, (c)2012.
- xv, 188 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Change and its repercussions -- Courtship -- Infancy -- The wild years: go-go -- Thee second birth and the coming of age: Adolescence -- Prime -- The signs of aging -- The aging organizations: Aristocracy -- The final decay: Salem city, bureaucracy, and death -- Determining a company's position on the corporate lifecycle.
This book offers a complete guide for understanding the natural lifecycles of organizations. Insightful and filled with practical knowledge, it is invaluable in diagnosing the problems of organizational growth and aging.