Downsizing - intellectual capital performance anorexia or enhancement?

• Published in: The learning organization Vol. 11; no. 4/5; pp. 368 - 379
• Main Author: Mitchell Williams, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Group Publishing Limited 01.08.2004; Emerald
• Subjects: Competition; Competitive advantage; Context Effect; Corporations; Dislocated Workers; Downsizing; Efficiency; Employees; Financial performance; Human Capital; Human resource management; Impact analysis; Information Systems; Intellectual capital; Intellectual Property; Job Layoff; Knowledge; Knowledge Management; Labor Force; Organizational Climate; Organizational Culture; Organizational Effectiveness; Productivity; Profits; Research Methodology; Social Capital; Social Networks; Studies; United States; Workforce; United States; United States > US; Intellectual capital; Downsizing; United States of America; Human resourcing

The objective of this paper is to investigate if downsizing contributes to, or impedes, a firm's intellectual capital performance (ICE) based on a longitudinal analysis of 56 United States publicly listed companies that significantly downsized their workforce during the mid-1990s. Empirical ana...