...Murali Kailasam; Winai Wongsurawat Purpose This paper aims to identify strategies used by companies during the recent global recession and to investigate the effectiveness of offensive and defensive strategies. It also investigates how these different types of strategies are sequenced. Design...

...Michaeline Skiba; Patrick O'Halloran Purpose Taking a broad review of the management and economics literature, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the recent “Great Recession” has had a disproportionate adverse impact on US labor markets and created social disruptions to professional...

... indicated that the different dimensions of the EO can have diverging effects on how firms are impacted by the recession. In general, the more innovative and proactive the firm is, the less its operations are affected by the recession and the more risk‐taking the firm is, the more its profitability...

...John Black; Peter Ackers The advent of a worldwide economic recession has weakened union power and put pressure on management to increase efficiency or “die”. The emergence of Thatcherism has reinforced this. The study examines the impact of this new context on management attitudes, behaviour...

...Christine Edwards The research presents an analysis of the impact of recession on industrial relations in a public sector company. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Industrial relations Recession 52 The Management of Industrial Relations in Recession Christine Edwards There is contention amongst...

..., on the whole, by means of the recession; consultative arrangements have been revitalised in some cases and collapsed in others, while on the employee involvement front, a range of techniques have come into play. Involving Employees Through the Recession by Mick Marchington and Roger Armstrong Introduction One...