Strategic Planning in the Small Business

Unit 6

TP 6-8

STAGES

OF FIRM

LIFE CYCLE

STAGE 1 EMBRYONIC/SEED

STAGE

STAGE 2 START-UP

STAGE

3 EARLY GROWTH

STAGE

4 RAPID

GROWTH

STAGE

5 MATURITY

STAGE 6 INSTABILITY

Ford,

Roger H. Boards of DirecwriT

and the Pnvately Owned Finn -

A Guidefor Owners, Officers, and

Directors. Fig. 3.1 p. 38.

Copyright Quorum,

1992. Reproduced with permission
      of Greenwood Publishing Group,
      Inc., Westport, CT.

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