Five Life Stages Bibliography

Excerpted from: The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations
by Judith Sharken Simon

Allison, Michael, and Jude Kaye. Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1997.

Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. Nonprofit Decline and Dissolution Project Report. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1987.

Angelica, Emil, and Vincent Hyman. Coping with Cutbacks: The Nonprofit Guide to Success When Times Are Tight. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1997.

Angelica, Marion Peters. Keeping the Peace: Resolving Conflict in the Boardroom. Washington, DC: National Council for Nonprofit Boards, 2000.

Angelica, Marion Peters. Resolving Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1999.

Adams, Tom. “Executive Transitions: How Board and Executives Create Their Futures.” Nonprofit World 126, no. 3 (1998) 48–52.

Adizes, Ichak. Corporate Life Cycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988.

Adizes, Ichak. “Organizational Passages: Diagnosing and Treating Life Cycle Problems of Organizations.” Organizational Dynamics (Summer, 1979) 3–25.

Baxter, Harry. “Joining the Board of a Nonprofit Organization.” Monograph. Saint Paul, MN: Management Assistance Project. (1987, 1988).

Bridges, William. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1991.

Cameron, Kim S., Robert I. Sutton, and David A. Whetten. Readings in Organizational Decline: Frameworks, Research, and Prescriptions. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988.

Carver, John, “The Founding Parent Syndrome: Governing in the CEO’s Shadow.” Nonprofit World 10, no. 5 (1992).

Chambliss, Arrington, Wayne Meisel, and Maura Wolf. Light One Candle: Quotes for Hope and Action. White Plains, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1991.

Galbraith, Jay. “The Stages of Growth.” Journal of Business Strategy 3, no. 4 (1982) 70–79.

Greiner, Larry E. “Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow.” Harvard Business Review 50, no. 4 (1972) 37–46.

Haffron, F. Organization Theory and Public Organizations: The Political Connection. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.

Hambrick, Donald C., and Lynn M. Crozier. “Stumblers and Stars in the Management of Rapid Growth.” Journal of Business Venturing 1 (1985) 31–45.

Hanks, Steven H., Collin J. Watson, Eric Jansen, and Gaylen N. Chandler. “Tightening the Life-Cycle Construct: A Taxonomic Study of Growth Stage Configurations in High-Technology Organizations.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 18, no. 2 (1993) 5–29.

Hummel, Joan M. Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Isabella, Lynn A. “The Effect of Career Stage on the Meaning of Key Organizational Events.” Journal of Organizational Behavior 9, no. 4 (1988) 345–58.

Kazanjian, Robert K. “Relation of Dominant Problems to Stages of Growth in Technology-Based New Ventures.” Academy of Management Journal 30, no. 2 (1988) 257–79.

Lippitt, Gordon L., and Warren H. Schmidt. “Crises in a Developing Organization.” Harvard Business Review 45 (1967) 102–112.

La Piana, David. The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook: The Leader’s Guide to Considering, Negotiating, and Executing a Merger. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 2000.

Lukas, Carol A. Consulting with Nonprofits: A Practitioner’s Guide. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1998.

Lundberg, C. “The Dynamic Organizational Contexts of Executive Succession: Considerations and Challenges.” Human Resource Management 25, no. 2 (1986), 287–303.

Mancuso, Anthony. How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in All Fifty States. 4th ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1997.

Mathiasen, Karl III. Board Passages: Three Key Stages in a Nonprofit Board’s Life Cycle. Washington, DC: National Center for Nonprofit Boards, 1990.

Mattessich, Paul W., Marta Murray-Close, and Barbara R. Monsey. Collaboration: What Makes it Work 2nd ed. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 2001.

McNamara, Carter. “The Founder’s Syndrome in Nonprofit Organizations.” Unpublished paper. Saint Paul, MN: October 1998.

Miller, Lawrence M. Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1990.

Miller, Danny and Patrick H. Friesen. “A Longitudinal Study of the Corporate Life Cycle.” Management Science 30, no. 10 (1984) 1161–83.

New York Nonprofits. “Organizational Life Cycles.” 14 no. 5 (September-October 1997).

Piercy, James E., and Benjamin J. Forbes. “The Phases of the Chief Executive’s Career.” Business Horizons 34, no. 2 (1991), 20–22.

Scott, Mel R., and Richard Bruce. “Five Stages of Growth in Small Business.” Long Range Planning 20, no. 3 (1987), 45–52.

Sharken Simon, Judith H. “A Model of Nonprofit Organization Lifecycles: A Journey to Oz.” Master’s Thesis, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, 1998.

Smith, Ken G., Terence R. Mitchell, and Charles E. Summer. “Top-Level Management Priorities in Different Stages of the Organizational Life Cycle.” Academy of Management Journal 28, no. 4 (1985) 799–820.

Stern, Gary J. Marketing Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1990; 2nd ed., 2001.

Stevens, Susan Kenny, and Lisa M. Anderson. Life Cycles of Nonprofit Organizations. Saint Paul, MN: The Stevens Group, Inc., 1993.

Winer, Michael, and Karen Ray. Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey. Saint Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1994.

Wolf, Thomas. The Nonprofit Organization: An Operating Manual. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984.