Corporate lifecycles : how and why corporations grow and die and what to do about it

Now in paper--Adizes' fascinating work that likens corporations to living organisms. Exploring their developmental stages, Adizes focuses on normal/healthy problems that lead to growth, versus abnormal/pathological problems that, if left untreated, lead to a company's death. The Lifecycle Of A Corporation -- The Adizes Theory Of Management : Tools For Predicting, Analyzing And Treating Corporate Cultures -- Using The Tools To Predict Behavior -- How To Change Organizational Cultures. Ichak Adizes. An Adizes Institute Book. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 351. Likens corporations to living organisms and traces their developmental stages, discussing the normal, even healthy problems that lead to growth at these stages, as well as the unusual problems that can cause a company's death The first stage in the development of an organization is called Courtship.