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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.

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.

This illustrative book considers the interface of business structures, contexts, and leadership building blocks to explore the contingent nature of leadership development in transgenerational entrepreneurship. Longitudinal case studies of 27 family firms in nine different countries provide a rich, global selection of leadership development insights by examining the roles of values, professionalization, leadership style and other contingent factors.The diversity of cases and chapters provides a rich foundation for insight into the pathways currently in use to develop the next generation leaders, illuminating the strategies and pathways of successful transgenerational family enterprises. By examining the available literature and one or more case studies, each chapter draws pragmatic conclusions, with findings that suggest the importance of focusing on leadership as a shared capability, transmission of values to maintain an entrepreneurial culture, the fit between professionalization and values to increase transgenerational potential, the need to address the structure of the business and the focus on parenting to develop next generations.This path-breaking book will inform family business researchers as they explore the ways in use to develop the next generation. Each chapter starts with a mini-case study focused on a dilemma related to leader development, making this book an excellent resource for educators in undergraduate, graduate, or executive programs.Contributors: N. Auletta, B. Bardai, P. Bender, N. Bhatnagar, F.H. Bos, M. Brumana, L. Cassia, J.P. Coen Rigtering, A. De Massis, R.-L. DeWitt, L. Díaz Matajira, A. Discua Cruz, A. Gimeno, G. González Couture, D. Grzybovski, M. Heetebrij-van Dalfsen, H. Higashide, N. Kozono, C. Lechner, I.A. Matser, T. Minola, L. Mohd Nor, A. Nilsson, M.J. Parada, K. Ramachandran, M. Ramírez-Pasillas, M.T. Roscoe, P. Sharma, A. Vieira, S.R. Xavier, K. Yamaguchi, M. Yusof