This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a … complex bundle of Conflict Management Procedures (CMPs). Through comparative statics, different scenarios are studied. A …

adversaries. While making this effort, the likelihood of peace is uncertain and preparations for conflict are on-going. We examine … investments in conflict management. Even when all adversaries undertake sizable investments in conflict management, peace is … widely different effects. A larger number of adversaries in cases of international conflict tends to increase the likelihood …

This paper provides the results of an empirical study on diversity and conflict within teams. In much of the previous … literature, conflict is generally view as negative and something to be avoided or immediately resolved. Some studies, however …, have examined the benefits of organizational conflict and methods for stimulating productive conflict (Amason and Schweiger …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …