Downsizing And Productivity Growth
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Downsizing And Productivity Growth
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Author : Martin Neil Baily
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Downsizing And Productivity Growth written by Martin Neil Baily and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Downsizing of organizations categories.
The conventional wisdom is that the rising productivity in the U.S. manufacturing sector in the 1980s has been driven by the apparently pervasive downsizing over this period. Aggregate evidence clearly shows falling employment accompanying the rise in productivity. In this paper, we examine the microeconomic evidence using the plant level data from the Longitudinal Research Database (LRD). In contrast to the conventional wisdom, we find that plants that increased employment as well as productivity contribute almost as much to overall productivity growth in the 1980s as the plants that increased productivity at the expense of employment. Further, there are striking differences by sector (defined by industry, size, region, wages, and ownership type) in the allocation of plants in terms of whether they upsize or downsize and whether they increase or decrease productivity. Nevertheless, in spite of the striking differences across sectors defined in a variety of ways, most of the variance of productivity and employment growth is accounted for by idiosyncratic factors.
Downsizing
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Author : Cary L. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-19
Downsizing written by Cary L. Cooper and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-19 with Business & Economics categories.
Downsizing is one of the most frequently used business strategies for reducing costs, returning firms to profit or for restructuring businesses following takeovers, mergers and acquisitions. Downsizing measures are also set to become much more prevalent in the public sector as governments seek to restrict levels of public spending. This book is one of the first to provide a thorough study of downsizing from a global perspective. It examines the phenomenon in its entirety, exploring how it is initiated and what the process of downsizing looks like. It also looks at the effects of downsizing at a number of different levels, from the individual (e.g., motivational effects, effects on health and stress levels) to the organizational (e.g., financial outcomes, reputational and productivity outcomes). Written by an international team of experts, the book provides a comprehensive overview of downsizing that examines both the strategic and human implications of this process.
Downsizing In America
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Author : William J. Baumol
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 2003-06-26
Downsizing In America written by William J. Baumol and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-26 with Business & Economics categories.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, a substantial number of U.S. companies announced major restructuring and downsizing. But we don't know exactly what changes in the U.S. and global economy triggered this phenomenon. Little research has been done on the underlying causes of downsizing. Did companies actually reduce the size of their workforces, or did they simply change the composition of their workforces by firing some kinds of workers and hiring others? Downsizing in America, one of the most comprehensive analyses of the subject to date, confronts all these questions, exploring three main issues: the extent to which firms actually downsized, the factors that triggered changes in firm size, and the consequences of downsizing. The authors show that much of the conventional wisdom regarding the spate of downsizing in the 1980s and 1990s is inaccurate. Nearly half of the large firms that announced major layoffs subsequently increased their workforce by more than 10 percent within two or three years. The only arena in which downsizing predominated appears to be the manufacturing sector-less than 20 percent of the U.S. workforce. Downsizing in America offers a range of compelling hypotheses to account for adoption of downsizing as an accepted business practice. In the short run, many companies experiencing difficulties due to decreased sales, cash flow problems, or declining securities prices reduced their workforces temporarily, expanding them again when business conditions improved. The most significant trigger leading to long-term downsizing was the rapid change in technology. Companies rid themselves of their least skilled workers and subsequently hired employees who were better prepared to work with new technology, which in some sectors reduced the size of firm at which production is most efficient. Baumol, Blinder, and Wolff also reveal what they call the dirty little secret of downsizing: it is profitable in part because it holds down wages. Downsizing in America shows that reducing employee rolls increased profits, since downsizing firms spent less money on wages relative to output, but it did not increase productivity. Nor did unions impede downsizing. The authors show that unionized industries were actually more likely to downsize in order to eliminate expensive union labor. In sum, downsizing transferred income from labor to capital-from workers to owners
Proceedings
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Proceedings written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Census categories.
Downsizing Efficiency Or Greed
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Author : Benjamin Robert Sill
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Downsizing Efficiency Or Greed written by Benjamin Robert Sill and has been published by Pendragon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Business & Economics categories.
The author was a college professor for many years, with experience teaching numerous management courses. Prior to that he worked as a Mckinsey/Bain/Boston Consulting Group type consultant, for IBM, several banks and securities firms, and owned a number of small businesses. Dr. Sill’s education consists of a BS with a teaching certification, an MBA from Hood College, and Doctoral research in Strategy with a specialty in downsizing. He has studied at Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Grenoble in France, Henley Management College in England, Newcastle University in England, and Horizons University in France. He has a doctorate in International Business from Horizons. He is dead set against the “winner take all” mentality and wonders if the “going for the jugular” attitude isn’t overrated. Brains, innovation and curiosity are all admirable traits, but wouldn’t the world be a better place with a little kindness? Bob is currently retired and a widower. Spending time with, and encouraging, his two grown children is a pleasure and priority.
Center For Economic Studies Discussion Paper
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Center For Economic Studies Discussion Paper written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with United States categories.
The Dynamic American Firm
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Author : Kenneth Chilton
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Dynamic American Firm written by Kenneth Chilton and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Business & Economics categories.
Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way. The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.
Corporate Downsizing To Rebuild Team Spirit
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language : en
Publisher: Fundacion BBVA
Release Date : 2007
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Downsizing And Productivity Growth
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Author : Martin Neil Baily
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
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Social Fairness And Economics
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Author : Lance Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-02-11
Social Fairness And Economics written by Lance Taylor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley’s work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination (along both ethical and analytical lines) of conventional neoclassical economic theory, particularly involving general equilibrium theories of value and money. Foley was a pioneer of complexity economics as well, which adopts approaches to these questions drawn from natural sciences, so the collection therefore has an interdisciplinary quality that will interest a wide variety of readers. Some of the chapters are intellectual biographies that contextualize and identify Foley’s contributions to Keynesian macroeconomics, Marxian value theory, and complexity theory in economics. The topics covered include the economics of complexity; the ethics of general equilibrium theory; the economics of climate change; applications of Keynesian, Marxian and Ricardian political economy; and money and financial crises. The collection should be useful to scholars who work in various economic traditions critical of the currently dominant free-market approach, but it also speaks to scholars of critical theory in various disciplines beyond economics such as the mathematicians, physicists, and other natural scientists who are interested in understanding the complexity of social processes using their analytical frameworks. This book should also appeal to graduate students in economics who are working in these traditions, as well as scholars (including current graduate students in orthodox programs) who are dissatisfied with the current state of economic theory and would like to satisfy their intellectual curiosity by sampling the contributions of critical theorists.