Determinants of Work Force Reduction Strategies in Declining Organizations

Greenhalgh, Leonard; Lawrence, Anne; Sutton, Robert I.

doi:10.5465/amr.1988.4306878

Cited by 137 publications

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“…We include the log transformation of the firm's average use of capacity utilisation. In times of weak capacity utilisation, employers will be eager to downsize (Greenhalgh et al ., ). Firm age. Age has been calculated as the difference between the current year and the firm's year of incorporation.…”

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Institutional determinants of downsizing

Muñoz‐Bullón

Sánchez-Bueno

2013

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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This study analyses the institutional determinants of downsizing in an economy with a highly rigid labour market: Spain. Our focus is first placed on the impact that the system of severance payment has on downsizing adoption. In particular, we analyse whether the regulatory environment can explain variations in employers' downsizing use. In addition, we analyse how organisations imitate one another in implementing downsizing, presumably in a quest for legitimacy. The evidence provided indicates that low levels of severance payments incurred by downsizers in the past promotes downsizing in the present, but too high severance payments discourages downsizing. Therefore, firms in Spain are constrained by regulatory forces stemming from labour law. Our results also reflect the importance of rational myths in downsizing because companies imitate the decisions on downsizing widely used in their industry and, particularly, those adopted by industry leaders.

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Institutional determinants of downsizing

Muñoz‐Bullón

Sánchez-Bueno

2013

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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“…First, we exclude articles with synonyms titles such as organisation mortality and death as well as organisational exit, decline, retrenchment, downsizing, setbacks and financial distress. Thus, the SLR invokes Greenhalgh, Lawrence and Sutton (1988) assertion that these should not be conceptualised as failure. Second, books, PhD Thesis, working papers, technical reports as well as articles published in conference proceedings are excluded due in part to the SLR quality bias.…”

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Predicting corporate failure: a systematic literature review of methodological issues

Appiah

Chizema

Arthur

2015

International Journal of Law and Management

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Purpose – This paper aims to review the existing literature systematically so as to contribute towards a better understanding of methodological problems of the classical statistical techniques, artificially intelligent expert systems and theoretical approaches to solve the corporate failure syndrome. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presented a systematic review of 83 articles reporting 137 prediction failure models published within 1966-2012 in scholarly reviewed journals in four main disciplines, namely, accounting, finance, banking and economics. The authors performed the systematic literature review with five main sources, namely, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Wiley Interscience, Metalib, Web of Science and Business Source Complete of the Social Sciences. The review modified the approaches used by Aziz and Dar (2006), Ravi and Ravi (2007) and Balcaen and Ooghe (2006). Findings – The results indicate significant body of prior literature on prediction of corporate failure, but a theoretically sound, highly accurate, simple and widely used corporate failure prediction model for stakeholders has yet to be developed. Originality/value – This paper contributes towards a systematic understanding of the methodological problems associated with the statistical, artificially intelligent expert systems and theoretical approaches to solve the corporate failure prediction problems faced by firms in 11 countries.

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“…Cameron, Sutton, and Whetten (1988) have recently compiled a set of major writings that focus on the life cycle's decline phase, and some of the pieces included in that collection appear in Table 4. Earlier decline research was reviewed by Greenhalgh (1983).…”

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Pilgrim’s Progress: Trends and Convergence in Research on Organizational Size and Environments

Bluedorn

1993

Journal of Management

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This article reviews the research conducted on organizational size and environments from 1980 through 1992. Specifically, the environmental research based on the traditional environmental contingency model is reviewed and trends over the review period are identified. The organizational size literature is reviewed in a similar fashion. Suggestions for empirical and theoretical extensions of trends identified in both research streams arepresented. An especially salient finding in the review is the emerging theoretical convergence of the size and environment research streams on the topic of organizational life cycles, which seems to particularly involve the population ecology model. Possible theoretical convergence between the institutional, population ecology, interorganizational relations, and environmental enactment perspectives and other fundamental organizationtheory areas (e.g., culture andstrategy) are then proposed. Overall, traditional organizational size and environment research continued at a steady pace over the review period, and new approaches and perspectives, especially in the area of environment research, have developed and are surpassing the traditional approaches in the volume of research they generate.

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Determinants of Work Force Reduction Strategies in Declining Organizations

Cited by 137 publications

References 17 publications

Institutional determinants of downsizing

Institutional determinants of downsizing

Predicting corporate failure: a systematic literature review of methodological issues

Pilgrim’s Progress: Trends and Convergence in Research on Organizational Size and Environments

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