时 间：2025年6月18日（周三），15：00开始
地 点：理科大楼A1114会议室
题目：The Influence of HRM Investments on Employee Downsizing Following Mergers & Acquisitions
主讲人：李梦薇（Mengwei LI），现任荷兰蒂尔堡大学（Tilburg University）人力资源研究系助理教授
主持人：王振源，数字工商与管理科学系教授
会议语言：中文
内容简介：
Firms have increasingly engaged in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities in recent years. A common strategy following M&A is conducting employee downsizing to achieve smoother post-acquisition integration and/or better financial results. However, downsizing has been found to be associated with diminished work motivation and productivity among downsizing “survivors”. While some scholars in strategic human resource management (SHRM) research suggests that HRM investments can be effective to reduce the negative repercussions of employee downsizing, other scholars argue that such HRM investments would convey contradictory messages to employees, resulting in more negative employee reactions and firm performance. In this research, we untangle this unsolved issue by looking into the M&A context where we argue that the acquiring firm’s HRM investments can positively moderate how employee downsizing affects firm performance by invoking a positive sensemaking experience from acquired firm employees. The positive sensemaking can further lead both acquired firm employees and acquiring firm employees to engage more willingly in post-merger integration processes. We examine HRM investments of acquiring firms established prior to the M&A and additional HRM investments made after the M&A. Using a representative sample of 5,467 firm-year observations from 1,214 U.S. publicly traded firms between 2002 and 2018, we found that both pre-acquisition and post-acquisition HRM investments of acquiring firms mitigate the negative effect of employee downsizing following M&A on firm performance. We discuss the implications of these findings for both research and practice.
报告人简介：
李梦薇（Mengwei LI），现任荷兰蒂尔堡大学（Tilburg University）人力资源研究系助理教授，博士毕业于美国堪萨斯大学。研究主要关注战略人力资源管理、人力资本、绿色人力资源管理、动态能力等。2024年获美国管理学会（Academy of Management）年会最佳论文。她的研究成果发表于Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Business Research等期刊。她曾为Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, The International Journal of Human Resource Management等期刊审稿。