This study explores the downsizing propensity of family and non-family firms by considering their territorial embeddedness during both periods of economic stability and financial crisis. By drawing on a panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 2002-2015, we show that, all...

We study social reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale restructuring events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around the time of the...

Existing literature has primarily identified financial and/or strategic considerations as drivers of international downsizing decisions. A subsidiary's performance seems to have a superior meaning among those considerations. Cultural distance is also an important factor, although its influence...

This paper examines how family firm CEO type—that is, whether the CEO of a family firm is the founder, an heir, or a professional (outside) executive—influences downsizing decisions, and the moderating effects of firm name, geographical location, and financial crises on the relationship...

Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. Combining ethnographic, survey and administrative records from a large Bangladeshi sweater factory, we study how workers responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the...

This paper primarily studies how wages predict long-term absenteeism in enterprises. In addition, it studies who disappears from the workforce when downsizing. Analyzing Norwegian enterprise data using dynamic unconditional quasi-maximum likelihood fixed-effects panel regression and general...