A Sociocognitive Interpretation of Organizational Downsizing
比较了经济、制度和社认知三种理论视角，用它们梳理组织裁员的实证文献，并提出社认知模型解释裁员如何被制度化。
To better understand the phenomenon of organizational downsizing, we compare three theoretical perspectives on downsizing: the economic, the institutional, and the sociocognitive. We use the three perspectives to organize the growing empirical literature on downsizing, and we link streams of empirical work to the theoretical perspective that underlies each. With our sociocognitive model, we argue that downsizing has become institutionalized through the collectivization and reification of a “downsizing is effective” schema. We also discuss implications for future theory and research.