...Alistair Bowden; Malgorzata Ciesielska Purpose Conflict is a core theme in organization studies and, though pervasive in the strategy-as-practice literature, it has been a relatively peripheral phenomenon. This study aims to place conflict at the center of strategizing by systematically reviewing...

...Aysylu Valitova; Dominique Besson Purpose Develop an integrated model to analyze conflicts at work and apply it to a case study. The core of the conceptual model is constituted by the interpersonal relationships modalities using the Palo Alto school theorization (symmetrical and complementary...

... framework to showcase the conflicts and opportunities created by subsidiary initiatives, as most research in this field is descriptive and comparative. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws substantially on entrepreneurship, agency, contingency and institutional theories, and focuses...

...Susanne Kjærbeck; Marianne Wolff Lundholt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate employees’ conflicting perspectives on the business strategy in a Danish housing association through a narrative approach, in order to gain insight into the relation between master- and counter-narratives...

...Virpi-Liisa Kykyri; Risto Puutio Purpose Although emotions are relevant for conflicted interactions, the role of emotions in organizational conflicts has remained understudied. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this by looking at the role of nonverbal affective elements...

... conflict intersections and how the meanings of diversity markers such as gender and race might be transformed. It highlights the resources of South African women leaders in higher education institutions for doing so. This study proceeds from a social constructivist perspective, seeking to uncover...

...Christina Anna Elisabeth Claßen; Reinhard Schulte Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of how conflicts, caused by the specifics of family businesses – the familiness – impact change in family businesses. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on 21 semi...

... consequences of these two-by-two dynamics and to set out the essentials of the sort of institutional re- design that could reverse those destructive consequences. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Conflict Niger delta Oil Cultural theory Communities Risk and vulnerability...

... Leadership Conflict Managerial Power If you are the JOCM reader who wants a detailed, well researched, readable, and prescriptive account of top management team building, then this is your book. Conversely, if you are the JOCM reader searching for a critical engagement of top...

...James R. Barker Patrick   Flood , Sarah   MacCurtain and Michael   West . Effective Top Management Teams . Dublin : Blackhall   2001 . 124 pp. (paperback) , ISBN: ISBN 1 842180 17 7   IrL 17.95 Top management Teams Leadership Conflict Power If you...

...E. Anne Lister Organizations often reproduce family relationships with conflicts against authority and sibling rivalry. Although seemingly aberrant, these behaviours are a typical and normal human response to organizational change. Relates four events from a major computer project which illustrate...

... upon work organization. Taylorism Employee relations Co-operation Conflict Power France Beyond the multiplicity of approaches, the convergence of diagnostics is salient: macroeconomists look for the post‐Fordist way; organizations analysts underline the new organizational forms...

...Joel Foreman Organizations Corporate culture Mass media Corporate culture Conflict This book is like a promising essay whose introduction makes commitments that are never fulfilled. Perhaps one should not expect more from a collection of edited essays. Such an assemblage is, as often...

...Cliff Cheng Examines a seemingly simple case of gender conflict by analysing the multi‐levelled, intra‐personal, interpersonal‐intergroup, and mass unconsciousness of gender conflict. Both process analysis and psychodynamic analysis are used to show that gender does not stand apart from other...

...Cindy Lindsay The experimental and potentially conflictual nature of diversity training is explained as integral to creation of effective organizational discourse and change in diversity. More effective understanding and management of these conflicts is needed. To explore how conflicts can...

... values,daily actions and organisational aims that facilitates the successful resolution of conflict, and of management and business dilemmas; and,thus, promotes organisational success. JOCM 4,4 46 Leadership, Integrity and Conflict Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr Harvard University, and Richard R. Ellsworth...