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Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational learning processes in downsizing [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this article is to explore organizational learning processes by examining how companies learn to do something new, namely downsize, on the basis of a small sample of companies in Europe.
Antal, Ariane Berthoin
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Frontline Managers\u27 Attachment Bonds to Their Surviving Employees Following an Organizational Downsizing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Existing research has shown how organizational downsizing affected surviving personnel. However, little is known about how organizational downsizing affected front- line managers\u27 attachment relationship with their decreased, disquieted, and ...
Smith, Robert Kenrick
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Strategic aspects of management organizational structure improvement in the context of ore mining companies [PDF]

open access: yesMarketing i Menedžment Innovacij, 2016
The aim of the article. Exemplified by the large Ukrainian mining companies, the article substantiates the need of improving management organizational structures (MOSs) to enhance the implementation efficiency of strategies developed.
L.M. Varava   +2 more
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Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1042-1056, July 2026.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Futures of Transit Work: Contesting Devaluation and Neoliberal Automation in Bus Transit

open access: yesAnthropology of Work Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic and decades of disinvestment, bus operators face mounting time pressure, frequent violence, and eroding job ...
Hunter Akridge, Sarah E. Fox
wiley   +1 more source

Who downsizes for longer? A longitudinal analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
This contribution investigates why firms keep on downsizing once they have started to do so. From a theoretical standpoint, we develop economic and institutional explanations for explaining corporate downsizing duration. The empirical work is carried out
Fernando Munoz-Bullon
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Agency, Interrupted: Does Organizational Restructuring Improve Managerial Gender Parity? Testing a Disruption Hypothesis

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 930-950, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Administrative restructuring is an organizational phenomenon suggested to improve under‐represented groups' managerial representation by disrupting networks and institutions. However, extant tests of a ‘disruption hypothesis’ are collectively inconclusive. We elaborate and test it with a qualitative‐to‐quantitative study of local health agency
Rebecca A. E. Kirley, Carlotta Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Organisational downsizing and musculoskeletal problems in employees: a prospective study

open access: yes, 2001
Objectives: To study the association between organisational downsizing and subsequent musculoskeletal problems in employees and to determine the association with changes in psychosocial and behavioural risk factors.
Vahtera, J.   +4 more
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Does downsizing improve organizational performance? An analysis of Spanish manufacturing firms [PDF]

open access: yes
The objective of this study is to examine the effect of downsizing on corporate performance, considering a sample of manufacturing firms drawn from the Spanish Survey of Business Strategies during the 1993- 2005 period. No significant differences in post-
Maria Jose Sanchez-Bueno   +1 more
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