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Ownership Traits and Downsizing Behaviour: Evidence for the Largest Spanish Firms, 1990—1998Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, josvic{at}usal.es
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, isuarez{at}usal.es This paper explores and tests the differences in downsizing behaviour depending upon three ownership-based traits of the largest Spanish companies: stock versus privately held corporations, foreign versus domestic firms and state-owned versus private companies. From a theoretical standpoint, we develop an explanatory model of downsizing that accounts for techno-economic, institutional, and socio-cognitive explanations which serves as a conceptual basis for generating hypotheses on the role of ownership in downsizing decisions. Probit estimates using a sample of large Spanish firms (1990—1998) confirm that stock corporations and state-owned firms engaged in a privatization process are more likely to downsize than privately held domestic companies. We found less conclusive results about the downsizing behaviour of foreign firms. Finally, our findings corroborate the relevance of organizational decline and institutional factors for predicting the downsizing event.
Key Words: downsizing • short-termism • ownership • Spanish firms
This version was published on November
1, 2007 Organization Studies, Vol. 28, No. 11,
1613-1638 (2007) |
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