Past research has shown that situations involving conflict arouse greater anxiety and discomfort in women than men, and that women are more likely to avoid conflict. In this research we examine how conflict avoidance affects emotional exhaustion. Specifically we asked, does avoiding conflict...

Prior research on emotion and team conflict has primarily focused on the experience of negative emotions, especially as they pertain to relationship conflict. We extend prior conceptualizations by considering both the valence of emotion (positive versus negative) and the activation level...

The response to initiation of negotiation is rarely investigated in negotiation research with the assumption that engagement is inevitable. Likewise, though a variety of topics are negotiated in organizations, negotiation research typically examines compensation and monetary issues. Two...

Negotiation teams are widely used to negotiate on behalf of organizations, yet relatively little is known about how they overcome the challenges posed by within team dynamics to create a sound across-the-table team bargaining strategy. This paper presents a two phase analysis of accounts of...

Research on self-serving bias in teams has focused on bias after team feedback. Many teams, however, work for extended periods of time before receiving feedback. This paper proposes that team members exhibit biases prior to receiving feedback, depending on the level of team satisfaction. The...

Modularity scholars argue that modular architectures lead to higher strategic flexibility through mass customisation and through both incremental and architectural innovation. There is little empirical evidence, however, on whether modular firms actually achieve the expected advantages. In this...

Zahra and George (2002) suggested a reconceptualization and extension of the construct "absorptive capacity" in order to reduce the ambiguity and diversity in empirical studies. A reading of the seminal article by Cohen and Levinthal (1990) in light of current research on learning and innovation...

Organizations face increasing pressure to improve internal conflict management, which has led to experimentation with different types of dispute resolution components. These include: Rights-based processes, in which third-parties determine the outcome of a dispute based on laws, contracts or...

In 1999-2000, a Canadian national government agency pilot-tested different employment dispute resolution systems (DRSs). The author analyzes how DRS characteristics in this natural quasi-experiment affected individuals' approaches to conflict management, their attitudes toward conflict at work,...

Despite strong evidence that task group status hierarchy instability is dysfunctional, little research has considered the processes that lead to hierarchy instability. In this paper, we examine the destabilizing effects of dissent about the hierarchy that is expressed as status conflict in the...