Meanings
nounself-perpetuation (usually uncountable, plural self-perpetuations)
plural self-perpetuations
- uncountableusuallyAn act or state of something causing itself to continue to exist.
One assumption that virtually all organizational theories and theorists seem to share is that every organization will devote itself to its own self-perpetuation. Experience suggests this assumption is generally well founded.
1994, Thomas Jeavons, When the Bottom Line is Faithfulness, page 65
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