Causes and Effects of Employee Downsizing: A Review and Synthesis

By Deepak K. Datta, James P. Guthrie, Dynah A. Basuil, Alankrita Pandey. 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Dispositional Sources of Managerial Discretion: CEO Ideology, CEO Personality, and Firm Strategies (2018, background): “While it is plausible in some situations that a CEO single-handedly arrives at the decision to downsize, there is abundant evidence for socio-political challenges that accompany such controversial decisions, including financial uncertainty, perceived fear of opposition from firms’ constituents, laws”
• The Agency Problem, Corporate Governance, and the Asymmetrical Behavior of Selling, General, and Administrative Costs (2012, unknown): “…(2) any benefits from downsizing accrue primarily to shareholders rather than managers; and (3) managers may prefer the “quiet life” and try to avoid the difficult decisions and costly efforts associated with downsizing (Bertrand and Mullainathan 2003; see Datta et al. 2010 for review).”