ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING - A CONVERGENCE AND REORIENTATION FRAMEWORK

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: FREEMAN, SJ; CAMERON, KS
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.4.1.10
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 10-29
• 关键词: downsizing; organizational change; reorientation

摘要

Organizational downsizing is becoming pervasive as a characteristic of modem organizations, yet little scholarly literature has addressed the processes and outcomes associated with this phenomenon at the organizational level. Downsizing has often mistakenly been confused operationally with concepts such as decline, layoffs, or nonadaptability, indicating that the definition of the concept remains imprecise. This paper offers a straightforward, operational definition of downsizing. Then the literature on organizational downsizing is used to build a theoretical framework of the process of effective downsizing and the organizational changes that may accompany it. Important organizational processes, characteristics, and outcomes associated with downsizing are identified.