Reducing Slack : The Performance Consequences of Downsizing By Large Industrial Firms, 1977 - 1993  

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Nohria, Nitin ; Love, E. Geoffrey

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Strategic Management Journal vol. 26 no. 12 (Dec. 2005), page 1087-1108.
Topik: ORGANIZATIONAL; organizational slack; downsizing; firm performance; organizational change

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS30.20 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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We conceptualize downsizing as an attempt to reduce organizational slack. We suggest that the degree to which downsizing will improve firm performance will be continent on conditions under which the downsizing occurs. We emphasize the level of organizational slack as in important contingency, and also examine two other contingencies : 1. whether the scope of the downsizing is narrow (restricted to personnel reductions) or broad (involves organizational redesign), and 2. if the downsizing is conducted proactively (when performance is stable or improving) or reactively (when performance is declining). By analyzing a panel dataset of downsizings conducted by the 100 largest american industrial firms from 1977 to 1993, we find broad support for our hypotheses that downsizing are more likely to lead to improved performance when firms have high slack, when their scope of the downsizing is broad and when the downsizing is done proactively. We also explore and find evidence for interactions among these contingencies. We discuss the implications of our findings for the literatures on downsizing and organizational slak. In doing so, we bring together two literatures that have an obvious affinity but have been only loosely coupled in the past.

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