Management inquiry in and around organizations has produced quite a few robust and sometimes unappreciated findings. One such finding deals with the notions of decline and renewal. Organizations—and societies, regimes, and even empires—rise and fall as they become less relevant or overstretch their ambitions beyond their resources and capabilities, sometimes through a process of decline in their moral imagination and increase in hedonism. Yet, as much as overstretching can participate in their decline, renewal can delay atrophy and ossification. Renewal comes in many forms. At the heart of renewal are innovations and innovators, and they help maintain the fit between evolving environments and the organizations that populate them.

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组织内部和周围的管理查询产生了许多可靠的，有时未得到赞赏的发现。其中一项发现涉及衰落和更新的概念。组织-以及社会，政权，甚至帝国-兴衰成败，因为它们变得不那么重要或雄心壮志超出了他们的资源和能力，有时是由于道德想象力下降和享乐主义增加的过程。然而，尽力而为可能会导致过度衰退，但更新可能会延迟萎缩和骨化。更新有多种形式。更新的核心是创新和革新者，它们有助于维持不断发展的环境与人口众多的组织之间的契合度。