"Organizations do not exist for their own sake ... survival is not an adequate goal. The organization's goal is a specific contribution to individual and society. The test of its performance, unlike that of a biological organism, therefore lies outside of it."
The first part of Drucker's comment that it is not enough to exist for the purpose of survival is right on the mark. Try being in business for the purpose of making the business last, and you'll find yourself and the business extinct.
Any business should of course exist for the purpose of something outside of itself. While there are things that can be done within to make that more effective, efficient and successful, it is still for the purpose of those we exist to serve that it remains.
If we lose that, we are already dead, then it's just of matter of going through the process of decay.
