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Toward a psychological and cultural model of downsizing

✍ Scribed by Marc S. Mentzer

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
51 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-3796

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Organizational downsizing is often counterproductive and applied irrespective of past financial performance. The popularity of this tactic leads to the question of whether an executive's propensity to downsize is linked to characteristics such as uncertainty avoidance and risk tolerance, which can be examined at either an individual or societal level. Copyright Β© 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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