Downsizing: An examination of some successes and more failures

Management Decision

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 424-437

  Appelbaum, Steven H ^a   Close, Tamara G ^b   Klasa, Sandy ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Chartered Financial Analyst   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Downsizing; Employees; Layoffs; Leadership; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986099078     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749910274207     Document Type: Article

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