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Innovation in the aftermath of downsizing: evidence from the threat-rigidity perspective
, 2020 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study how job reductions affect product innovation and marketing innovation in a sample of 2,034 Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 2007–2014.
López Sánchez, José Ignacio +3 more
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Medical Laboratory Journal, 2013 Background and Objective: Nowadays, downsizing the government to have an effective and flexible organization is considered to be government’s top priority in the world and outsourcing is one of the ways to achieve this goal.
MD Omrani +4 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Training and Retaining Public Servants for the Future
Transylvanian Review of Administrative SciencesDemographic changes with an ageing population and declining birth rates, alongside economic challenges, have implications for the public service labour market.
Karen Johnston, Andrew Massey
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances research on policy accumulation by analyzing its political consequences in the French housing sector. It argues that, in the context of decentralization reforms, the accumulation of policy instruments has undermined national steering capacities and intensified territorial inequalities.
Francesco Findeisen, Patrick Le Galès
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Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study
, 2004 Objective To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a predictor of increased sickness absence and mortality among employees.Design Prospective cohort study over 7.5 years of employees grouped into categories on the ...
Kivimaki, M +6 more
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Survivors of redundancy: a justice perspective [PDF]
, 2007 Organisations in and around Britain continue to restructure and downsize their workforce. Redundancies and reorganisation of staff remains a major aspect of internal organisational change.
Campbell, Fiona
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates why Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have adopted distinct care strategies, despite shared demographic challenges and developmental legacies. It advances a dual‐layered framework of state autonomy that distinguishes between elected and unelected state actors and integrates cross‐national differences in electoral ...
Jooha Lee
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Phases of Cost Cutting: Downsizing is Dead; Long Live the Downsizing Phenomenon [PDF]
This downsizing research article presents a phase typology of job cutting which includes three distinct phases and three levels of argument. Conceptually, the paper draws heavily upon the seminal work of Littler and Gandolfi (2008) seeking to expand and ...
Franco GANDOLFI
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