Concise Guide to Corporate Downsizing

Past, Present and Future

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This incisive guide showcases contemporary downsizing scholarship and practice, examining downsizing effects on firm performance and employee attitudes and behaviors. It presents historical analyses and comprehensive literature reviews, as well as empirical and theoretical assessments of contextual influences on downsizing.Renowned experts apply an array of theories to address leadership and managerial motives, downsizing implementation and its effects. They offer insight to workforce reductions in family firms, evolving psychological contracts, justice enactment, mental health, and post-layoff re-employment behaviors. The book offers updated perspectives on why downsizing occurs, how digitalization is affecting work and downsizing, and how people are navigating an evolving landscape.A Concise Guide to Corporate Downsizing is designed for students and academics in economics, strategy, and management. Its historical and forward-looking approach to downsizing makes it an essential read for business leaders, investors, analysts and human resource professionals.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-22
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035311002

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Edited by Rocki-Lee DeWitt, Professor of Management, Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont, USA and Alyson P. House, Independent Researcher, Calgary, Canada

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ContentsIntroduction to corporate downsizing 1Rocki-Lee DeWitt and Alyson P. House1 A review and synthesis of downsizing research: the dilemma endures 8Alyson P. House and Rocki-Lee DeWitt2 What do analysts and investors need to know about employment downsizing? 59Wayne F. Cascio, Arjun Chatrath and Rohan A. Christie-David3 Confirmation and compensation: extending the socio-cognitive perspective on workforce downsizing 95Matthias Brauer and Martin Zimmermann4 Research on workforce reductions in family firms: a review and future directions 121Fernando Muñoz-Bullón and María J. Sánchez-Bueno5 Navigating the digital shift: downsizing magnitude and its timing under corporate digitalization 164Rick (H. L.) Aalbers and Jasper (J. D.) van Boven6 Leadership, prevention, and the mental health side of downsizing 201James Campbell Quick7 The crucial role of managers in enacting organizational justice in downsizing situations 223David Patient and Marjo-Riitta Diehl 8 New directions for psychological contracts and downsizing: delivering and managing the bad news, layoff footprint, and algorithmic management 254 Maria Tomprou, Sandra Costa and Tiago Rôxo Aguiar 9 An investigation of downsizing social status, internal networking, and strengths crafting 282 Jessica R. L. Good, Michael Halinski and Janet A. Boekhorst