Successful and Unsuccessful Phases of the Corporate Life Cycle
实证研究发现，成功阶段的信息处理和决策方法复杂度逐步提升，而不成功阶段则无此持续发展；成功阶段的创新变量差异小，不成功阶段则创新与停滞交替出现。
An empirical study of successful and unsuccessful phases of the life cycle revealed two very significant differences. First, successive successful phases showed gradual and continual increases in the sophistication of their information processing and decision making methods. Unsuccessful phases showed no such continuous development. Second, successful phases revealed few differences in innovation-related variables, while unsuccessful phases demonstrated more significant differences, alternating between greater extremes of innovation and stagnation.