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We propose that disorganizing organizations attempt to avoid mortality by reducing audience engagement. We also propose that, typically, such behaviors only delay the inevitable because reduced engagement diminishes audience appeal which, in turn, raises mortality hazards.

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Organizational mortality events are better understood than the process by which organizations cease to be.

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Organizational mortality events are better understood than the process by which organizations cease to be.

Dr. Christopher Ian Rider
University of Michigan

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This page is a summary of: They just fade away: mortality in the US venture capital industry, Industrial and Corporate Change, December 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr074.
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