International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 35 Issue 5

From intra-team conflict to interpersonal strain: the role of leader’s interpersonal modulation of emotional responses and sex

Ferdinando Paolo Santarpia, Valentina Sommovigo, Sara Brecciaroli, Chiara Consiglio, Laura Borgogni

By integrating the conservation of resources and the emotion-as-social-information theories, this study aims to question whether the leader’s effort to calm down when team members…

Curbing relationship conflict for achieving green customer integration: roles of organizational commitment and influence strategy

Jieyu Wang, Taiwen Feng

This study aims to investigate how relationship conflict (RC) hinders green customer integration (GCI) and which strategy could be developed to alleviate the negative effect of RC.

Online abuse: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

Raiswa Saha, Sakshi Ahlawat, Umair Akram, Uttara Jangbahadur, Amol S. Dhaigude, Pooja Sharma, Sarika Kumar

The study aims to examine the conceptualization of online abuse (OA) and identifies theories, countries of research, top-cited articles, methodologies, antecedents, mediators…

How does abusive supervision differentiation affect employee work-family conflict? A moderated chain mediation model

Lanxia Zhang, Jia-Min Li, Mengyu Mao, Lijie Na

This study aims to explore the mechanism of abusive supervision differentiation on employee work-family conflict, and examine the chain mediating role of work-related rumination…

Nested insider-partial mediator: South Korea’s mediation in the US–DPRK crisis in 2017–2018

Amira Schiff

The purpose of this paper is to advance our understanding of international crisis mediation by introducing and examining the nested insider-partial mediator (NIPM) concept, a…

How does goal orientation affect employees’ perception of abusive supervisors?

Haizhen Wang, Xin Ma, Ge An, Wenming Zhang, Huili Tang

Goal orientation shapes employees’ approach to and interpretation of workplace aspects such as supervisors’ behavior. However, research has not fully examined the effect of goal…

Bearing the brunt: a daily diary examination of abusive supervision and the sustaining role of coworkers’ support

Zubair Akram, Saima Ahmad, Umair Akram, Abdul Gaffar Khan, Baofeng Huo

This study aims to examine the relationship between abusive supervision and workplace incivility using a dual theoretical framework. First, it draws on the ego depletion theory to…

Does relationship conflict reduce novel idea communication through perceived leader openness? Power distance orientation as a moderator

Ming-Hong Tsai

This paper aims to investigate why followers have low perceptions of leader openness and thus feel reluctant to communicate novel ideas by examining leader–follower relationship…

Workplace bullying and employee silence: the role of affect-based trust and climate for conflict management

Arathi Krishna, Devi Soumyaja, Joshy Joseph

A workplace bullying dynamic involving multiple individuals targeting victims can lead to the victim losing emotional bonds or affect-based trust with their colleagues, resulting…

A little humor goes a long way? The influence of humor on offer acceptance in one-shot online negotiations

Emma Garnier, Melvyn R.W. Hamstra, Frieder Lempp, Martin Storme

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the use of humor in one-shot online negotiations affects the chance that the target of the humor will accept the offer. This…

Does the conflict between work and family hinder thriving? Role of depersonalization and intrinsic motivation

Juman Iqbal, Mohammad Nurul Alam, Hamia Khan

Elucidating on the concrete outline of conservation of resource theory, this study aims to explore the links between work-family conflict and workplace thriving. In particular…