As noted erlier in this chapter,organizations areborn,growand eventually die (though it may take a hundred years or more).
New organizations are formed daily. At the same time, every day hundreds of organizations close their doors, never to open again. We especially see this birth and death phenomenon among small businesses. They pop up and disappear in every community. In this section, we will build on the biological metaphor of organizations proceeding through life-cycle stages.
Like human beings,we will argue,all organizations are born,live.and die. Also,like human beings,some develop fater than others and some do a far better job of aging than others,but the metaphor remains an interesting
way to conceptualize the life of an organization.