ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS IN SYRIAN CONFLICT

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...

Healing invisible wounds of the Syrian conflict

Mental health services are becoming more widely available than ever before to the Syrian population in spite of the crisis. Dale Gavlak reports.

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...