Organizational Decline

Roles: organization, stressor, resilience, threshold, collapse

The process by which organizations lose capacity, coherence, or viability over time. As a target domain, organizational decline draws heavily on biological metaphors (disease, bleeding, decay) and physical metaphors (erosion, structural failure, entropy). The frame centers on the relationship between accumulated stressors and the system’s capacity to absorb them.

Applied To This Frame (1)

• harm → Death by a Thousand Cuts