Every organization has a beginning, and if there is a lasting need for the products or services of the organization, it will go through multiple stages. The stages are part of the life cycle of an organization.

In the article, "Organizational Life Cycles and Shifting Criteria of Effectiveness...analyze organizational life cycle change and include:

• the early stages of development,
• performance and resource acquisition,
• events leading to later stages of development,
• and the development of the formalization and control stage.

Resource

Quinn, R. E., & Kim, C. (1983). ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE CYCLES AND SHIFTING CRITERIA OF EFFECTIVENESS: SOME PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE. Management Science (Pre-1986), 29(1), 33. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/organizational-life-cycles-shifting-criteria/docview/205852108/se-2