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Necessary and sufficient factors in employee downsizing? A qualitative comparative analysis of lay-offs in France and the UK, 2008–2013

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posted on 2016-01-22, 12:46 authored by M. Goyer, Ian A. Clark, S. Bhankaraully
Embedded in the literature on financialization and institutional approaches, this study is an examination of the causal factors of employee downsizing in two institutionally dissimilar settings, France and the UK, using the fuzzy sets variant of Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The findings show that the roughly equivalent use of large-scale lay-offs in the two countries is coupled with strikingly different causal factors. Our argument suggests the importance of complex causation whereby employee downsizing reflects the growing influence of financial considerations in the governance of companies, but its diffusion across countries is shaped by different configurations of institutional arrangements.

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Human Resource Management Journal, 2016, DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12101

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A qualitative analysis of downsizing in France and the UK

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Management

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Human Resource Management Journal

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0954-5395

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1748-8583

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2015-12-23

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2016

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2018-02-17

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1748-8583.12101/abstract

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This file is under embargo for 2 years from first publication.

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