He, X. and Rizov, M. and Zhang, X. (2022) 'Workforce size adjustments as a strategic response to exchange rate shocks: A strategy-tripod application to Chinese firms.', Journal of business research., 138 . pp. 203-213.
Abstract
How firms use workforce size adjustment as a strategic response to external shocks such as exchange-rate fluctuations is an important but not yet fully understood topic. To address the void in the literature, we apply the strategy tripod theoretical framework, which sees the external shocks as an industrial impact, the budget constraints as an institutional force, and the firm leverage as an organisational capability to examine the firms’ strategic response in terms of workforce size adjustment in the Chinese economy context. Based on longitudinal data of Chinese manufacturing firms, our analysis finds that facing exchange rate shocks, firms with hard budget constraint are more responsive in adjusting their workforce than firms with soft budget constraint. Furthermore, highly levered firms, with hard budget constraint, will adjust their workforce more aggressively than firms with less debt in their financial structure.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | Publisher-imposed embargo until 16 March 2023. (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. File format - PDF (431Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.013 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2021 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Date accepted: | 06 September 2021 |
| Date deposited: | 07 September 2021 |
| Date of first online publication: | 16 September 2021 |
| Date first made open access: | 16 March 2023 |
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