Organizational Dysfunctions of Decline
讨论了衰退期组织的功能失调特征，包括决策集中化、缺乏长期规划和创新采纳减少，这些特征在稳定和衰退组织中均存在，仅增长中的组织能避免。
The article discusses the dysfunctional attributes of organizations experiencing periods of decline. Organizations involved in the study were gauged using a number of dysfunctional attributes in organizations identified by scholars, including the centralization of decision making, a lack of long-term planning and a pronounced decrease in the adoption of innovations. According to the author, the aforementioned attributes are characteristic of both stable and declining organizations. Only organizations experiencing growth in revenues seem to avoid these problems.