International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 30 Issue 4

Editorial

Richard Posthuma

An exploration of whether engineers differ from non-engineers in their approach to negotiations

Barry Goldman, Dylan A. Cooper, Cagatay Koc

In this investigation, the authors aim to ask whether engineers, as a profession, share distinct characteristics in their attitudes and behaviors relating to negotiations. Based…

Let’s agree to disagree?: The impact of perceptual gap of work environment on self-directed behavior

Jeonghwan Choi

The purpose of this paper is to identify and understand the dynamics among perceptual gap of work environment between a supervisor and subordinates; personal psychological…

Process conflict and employee well-being: An application of Activity Reduces Conflict Associated Strain (ARCAS) model

Vijay Kuriakose, Sreejesh S., Heerah Jose, Anusree M.R., Shelly Jose

The primary objective of this paper is to extend the Activity Reduces Conflict Associated Strain (ARCAS) model. To test the ARCAS model, the study aims to examine the effect of…

The influence of cognitive style diversity on intra-group relationship conflict, individual-level organizational citizenship behaviors and the moderating role of leader-member-exchange

Meng Qi, Steven John Armstrong

This paper aims to investigate the influence of cognitive style diversity on intra-group relationship conflict and individual-level organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs)…

When and how cognitive conflict benefits cross-functional project team innovation: The importance of knowledge leadership

Haiyan Guo, Lianying Zhang, Xiaoyan Huo, Guannan Xi

This research aims to comprehensively investigate when and how cognitive conflict benefits team innovation in cross-functional project teams (CFPTs), by exploring the moderating…

Effect of stakeholder’s conflicts on project constraints: a tale of the construction industry

Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Muhammad Sohail Anwar Malik, Abdur Rehman Nasir

The purpose of this research is to quantify the effect of stakeholder conflicts on project constraints in the construction industry using ordinal regression analysis. For this…

Talent without power: Status and power dynamics of performance and intragroup conflicts in engineering teams

Shashank Mittal

This study aims to look at the interaction dynamics among engineering professionals from the lens of status hierarchies and derive on the role of intragroup conflicts prevalent in…