媒体对家族企业裁员和扩大规模决策的反应

IF 10.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Business Research Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115348

Sebastian P.L. Fourné , Rico Kremer , Miriam Zschoche

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摘要

当企业宣布重组决策时，媒体是一个重要的利益相关者。我们认为，记者的反应取决于与家族企业和非家族企业在雇佣实践方面的关系，以及它是消极的还是积极的重组（缩小规模vs.扩大规模）。这两种类型的重组都可能造成与家族企业形象的认知失调。实证分析了媒体对2006-2019年德国家族企业和非家族企业所有重大重组决策公告的反应。结果证实了我们的假设，即家族企业在宣布裁员决定时平均得到更有利的评价，但对其裁员决定的报道（比非家族企业）较少。我们的研究强调，当被媒体利益相关者评估时，当一家公司与特定的（主要是积极的）特征联系在一起时，不仅会带来好处，而且在其他情况下，同样的特征也可能成为一种负担。

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Media reactions to family Firms’ downsizing and upsizing decisions

The media is an important stakeholder when firms announce restructuring decisions. We argue that journalists’ reactions vary depending on what is associated with family firms and non-family firms in terms of employment practices and whether it is a negative or a positive restructuring (downsizing vs. upsizing). Both types of restructuring may create a cognitive dissonance with the family firm image. Empirically, we analyze the media reactions to announcements of all major restructuring decisions of family firms and non-family firms based in Germany 2006–2019. The results confirm our hypothesis that family firms are evaluated on average more favorably when announcing a downsizing decision but elicit less favorable coverage of their upsizing decisions (than non-family firms). Our study highlights that, when being evaluated by media stakeholders, there are not only benefits when a firm is associated with specific (mostly positive) characteristics but that the same characteristics can also be a burden in other situations.

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Journal of Business Research BUSINESS-

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20.30

自引率

10.60%

发文量

956

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