There are two conclusions, neither of them satisfying, one can draw from Paul Ormerod's thesis that the extinction patterns of biological species and business firms not only look similar, but are under-girded by the same "law of failure." On the one hand, Ormerod points out in Why Most Things Fail, perhaps both corporations and species plan their evolution. But this amounts to saying that ringworms can tinker with their DNA as easily as managers adjust their capital projections and budgets.
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