Determinants of inter-generation conflict in organizations

Distributional conflict in organizations

Hierarchy can function as an instrument to channel influence activities or power struggles in organizations. Contrary to what has frequently been argued, we show that multi-divisional organizations may involve lower influence costs than single-tier organizations, even though they offer more scope for organizational conflict and have more executives that can be influenced. These benefits derive ...

Conflict in health care organizations.

Contracts and Conflict in Organizations

In many organizations, the way that incentive problems are alleviated is not via contracts, but rather who is hired. This paper offers a theory of targeted hiring, and how its role changes as contracting becomes poorer. ∗University of Chicago, GSB. Email: [email protected]. Thanks to Wouter Dessein, Bob Gibbons, and seminar participants at the University of Chicago, Columbia U...

Conflict Management in Organizations: A Conceptual Model

To capture and represent conflicts in organizations, this research presents a conceptual model of conflict, conceptualized as vignette. We define a vignette as similar to, yet distinct in important ways from a case in that it is analytical, theory-laden, and of multiple perspectives. It represents key information pertaining to a conflict, such as cause, claims, transitions, actions, and strateg...

Determinants of Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations

The paper examines the problem of risk mitigation in virtual organizations (VOs). In a virtual organizational setting, various information technologies provide employees freedom to work from any place and at any time. Such temporal and spatial dispersion however weakens the ties that bind the organizations and their members. The paper examines the problem of risk mitigation in VOs. The paper po...