Decline
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'''Decline''' is a change over time from previously efficient to inefficient organizational functioning, from previously rational to non-rational organizational and individual decision-making, from previously law-abiding to law violating organizational and individual behavior, from previously virtuous to iniquitous individual moral behavior.
'''Social decline''' or '''moral decline''' is typically characterised as reduced adherence to [[culture|cultural]] or [[norm (sociology)|social norms]] or [[Value (personal and cultural)|value]]s and widespread lapses in [[ethics|ethical]] behavior.
Entities and organizations may enter a state of decline if they fail to respond effectively to changes, which may be the result of:
* inability to recognize change in the organizational environment
* insufficient resources to respond to change in the organizational environment
* refusal to respond to change in the organizational environment because organizational leaders benefit from organizational decline
==See also==
*[[Decline of the Roman Empire]]
*[[Social disintegration]]
*[[Societal collapse]]
*[[Declension]] (grammatical change)
==References==
* [[Albert O. Hirschman]]. 1970. ''[[Exit, Voice, and Loyalty]]: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-27660-4 (paper).
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