Transportation networks are sized to efficiently achieve some set of service objectives. Under particular circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for transportation can significantly change, both qualitatively and quantitatively, resulting in an over-capacitated less efficient network. In this paper, we address issue by proposing a framework resizing network cope with new demand. T...

There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to rm size and much less so to nancial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an eeect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical considerations, our evidence for German industrial rms shows that pay for rm size elasticities decrease only for larg...

The beginning of the new millennium has been characterized by increased outsourcing and off-shoring of IT work. One outcome of this spurge has been massive layoffs of IT workers, with different companies following different approaches to downsizing IT workers. There is very limited empirical research examining layoff approaches accompanying IT outsourcing decisions and resultant organizational ...

Telstra and the Telecom Corporation of New Zealand (TCNZ) are examined against the backdrop of deregulation, corporatisation and privatisation of telcommunications companies (TelCos) world-wide. This changing context has seen TelCos face new opportunities and threats amid changed product markets. The deregulation of the New Zealand and Australian telecommunications markets has been accompanied ...