Employee layoff under different modes of restructuring: Exit, downsizing or relocation

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-182

  Coucke, Kristien ^a,b   Pennings, Enrico ^c,d   Sleuwaegen, Leo ^b,c  

^a EHSAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; EMPLOYMENT; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; LABOR SUPPLY; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 34447578676     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtm002     Document Type: Article

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