self-perpetuation
nounEtymology From self- + perpetuation.
1
Usually An 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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- self-perpetuating