Purpose - This paper aims to examine the influence of the interplay between servant leadership behaviors and Machiavellianism on leader effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach - Drawing on trait activation theory and motivation to lead theory, the authors hypothesize that the effect of...

This Perspective discusses the latest developments in UNCITRAL of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution and argues that the Advisory Centre should be established with an initial set-up of headquarters and regional offices in order to effectively deliver its services...

This research aims to examine recent writing on the dynamics of indigenous conflict management practices in Ethiopia to review the concept and create a more thorough theoretical description from a conceptual perspective. The study demonstrates that there are scattered studies across countries...

The increasing volume of digital trades inevitably generates more disputes. An efficient online dispute resolution mechanism is an important digital trade promotion policy measure, as it ensures the cyber order and strengthens online users' confidence. The immediate implication is the...

During a tumultuous moment in history with shifts in power and politics, international dispute settlement stands at a crossroads. In theory, international dispute settlement should not institutionalize abuses of power, rely upon a monolithic one-size-fits-all model, or be a waste of resources,...

The market for crypto assets has grown rapidly in the last couple of years. Buzzwords like cryptocurrency, Non-fungible tokens (hereinafter “NFTs”) and metaverse have gone viral. Celebrities, artists, pop singers, e-commerce platforms, financial institutes, airlines, and many others are...

The legitimacy of using Alternative (or Amicable) Dispute Resolution (ADR) to give relief to the State-managed court system is debated in almost every advanced legal system. It seems that, while the theory of contemporary ADR, conceptually conceived by the so-called “School of Harvard”...

The purpose of the present study is to gain a conceptual understanding of the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in conflict formation, and resolution at the workplace. Organizational environment is such a place where individuals are jointly performing tasks and achieve organizational...

This paper attempts to appraise the use of alternative dispute resolution as a panacea to protracted election disputes in Nigeria. The hallmark of democracy in any given society is the conduct of free and fair elections. However, in almost every election, disputes are bound to occur and it is...

The interaction of human beings in the group highlights the conflict of relationships and the combat of tasks. This finds out about pursuits to explore how to struggle administration affects performance. From it, we advise a theoretical framework modified with the aid of Nesterkin et. al. (2016)...

COVID-19 has been a crisis unexpected in scale and nature. It has changed many assumptions that we have about life and work. It has also forced drastic behavioural changes. Dispute lawyers everywhere are not spared. To a large extent, technology and the internet avoided a complete collapse in...

This essay, as the opening of a Symposium (festschrift) issue in honor of my work on dispute resolution, civil rights, feminism, legal ethics and the sociology of the legal profession begins with an analysis of “fair” distribution in negotiation, using contexts, stories, metaphors and...

The relationship between state initiatives in conflict resolution as a means of bringing about development in northeast India is the main topic of this article. The primary goal of this essay is to determine the historical significance of the state's position as a driving force behind...

This paper aims to explore conflict as a process that includes antecedents, management strategy, and outcomes while examining the role of affective states in an elementary school working environment. After a theoretical overview and systematization of the conflict elements, a questionnaire was...

Disputes and conflict are inevitable and arise in every facet of business. While litigation is often unavoidable, Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) provides alternatives to protracted, costly, and public litigation and trials through courts and other public tribunals. Our purpose in...

Included in this bibliography is a selected set of dispute resolution and related professional responsibility and access to justice readings, primarily (although not exclusively) with a general negotiation and mediation focus. This bibliography is not comprehensive. Rather – given the breadth...

Emerging mega-integration blocs such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are evolving outside of the World Trade Organization’s influence. Their most contested features are their investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) systems. This article...

Today, many employers require their employees, as a condition of employment, to agree to arbitrate employment-related legal claims rather than pursue them in court. While arbitration can be mutually beneficial, allowing parties to avoid the cost, time, publicity, and unpredictability associated...

Alternative dispute resolution procedures such as arbitration and mediation are the most common methods for resolving wage, contract, and grievance disputes, but they lead to varying levels of success and acceptability of the outcome depending on their design. Some innovative procedures, not yet...

Disagreements over business deals, land boundaries, or loan non-repayment are very common sources of disputes, and courts are congested in developing countries. We evaluate the effects of the government introducing formal "village courts" (VCs) in rural Bangladesh using a randomized controlled...

Limited information, experience, and very low economic conditions are the background of business dispute cases, especially in Islamic mortgages. Business dispute cases, including Islamic mortgage, have so far been resolved using non-litigation settlements using Alternative Dispute Resolution...

1. Introduction / Eda Sahin-Sengül and Serkan Kaya -- 2. Consumer ADR in the EU / Serkan Kaya and Eda Sahin-Sengül -- 3. Consumer ADR in the UK / Eda Sahin-Sengül and Serkan Kaya -- 4. Consumer ADR in Turkey / Serkan Kaya and Eda Sahin-Sengül -- 5. Consumer ADR in Chile / Rodrigo Momberg,...

I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative strength and seeks to keep them engaged in a war of attrition for as long as possible. In the unique Markov Perfect Equilibrium, the sender employs “shifting rhetoric”: she...

One of the most important and disputed questions within the fields of international relations and conflict studies concerns the issue of mediator impartiality. Should mediators be biased—supportive of one but not both of the main disputants—or should mediators always be impartial? This paper...

Dispute Resolution Mechanisms are constantly evolving throughout the history of corporate and commercial conflicts. The process of litigation now involves delay and costliness. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has been proved to be useful as it provides a peaceful mechanism and a win-win...

The pursuit of a safe, secured and egalitarian society in Kaduna state has since 1980 to date been challenged by the occurrence of series of conflicts with ethnic, religious and political coloration which over the years defied solutions evolved by government to check them. This paper argued that...

Med-Arb is a dispute resolution process that combines mediation and arbitration. Interest is increasing in Med-Arb because of a growing similarity between arbitration and litigation. As attorneys legalize and formalize mediation into a more evaluative and adversarial process, Med-Arb...

This book contains over 300 “winning” captions for more than 50 cartoons used in cartoon captioning contests that were published over 14 years in the Dispute Resolution Magazine, a quarterly publication of the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution. Also included are...