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Record W1609950221 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511791574.005

How does downsizing come about?

2012· book-chapter· en· W1609950221 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2012
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicOrganizational Downsizing and Restructuring
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRecessionChinaScope (computer science)BusinessPolitical scienceEconomics

Abstract

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Employment downsizing, the planned elimination of positions or jobs, is a defining characteristic of modern life in organizations. It may be reactive (in response to a change in economic or organizational conditions) or proactive (executed in anticipation of such changes). In the most recent economic recession, downsizing was global in scope, with 8.5 million layoffs in the United States and more than 50 million worldwide. As Datta, Guthrie, Basuil, and Pandey (2010) have noted, in these turbulent economic times even countries that traditionally have avoided layoffs (e.g., South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong) embraced the practice. Export-oriented and labor-intensive firms in China, and firms in both manufacturing and services industries in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe participated as well. Not surprisingly, therefore, employment downsizing has attained the (dubious) status as one of the most high-profile, significant, and pervasive management issues of our time. Over the past three decades, downsizing has occurred in virtually all industries and sectors of the economy, and it has affected business, governments, and individuals around the world (Cascio, 2010a; Gandolfi, 2008).

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.987
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.163
Teacher spread0.149 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it