The document discusses the organizational life cycle, which includes four main stages: birth, growth, decline, and death. It describes several models that explain how organizations progress through these stages and the typical challenges organizations face at each phase. For example, organizational birth involves founding a new organization and overcoming the liability of newness. The population ecology model views organizational birthrates over time as influenced by environmental factors. Organizational growth involves developing skills to acquire more resources but can lead to isomorphism. Decline results from inability to adapt to changes and may occur through several stages from unrecognized problems to crisis and dissolution.

1. Organizational Theory, Design, and Change Sixth Edition Gareth R. Jones Chapter 11 Organizational Transformations: Birth, Growth, Decline, and Death

5. Figure 11.1: A Model of the Organizational Life Cycle

9. Table 11.1: Developing a Business Plan

13. Figure 11.2: Organizational Birthrates Over Time

17. Figure 11.3: Strategies for Competing in the Resource Environment

30. Figure 11-4: Greiner’s Model of Organizational Growth

33. Figure 11.5: The Relationship Between Organizational Size and Organizational Effectiveness

39. Figure 11.7: Weitzel and Jonsson’s Model of Organizational Decline