This research investigates how the use of social media tools affects virtual team conflicts. The novel concept of “feature richness”, which is understood as affordances of social media tools, is theorized. Feature richness distinguishes social media tools from other commonly used communication tools in virtual teams. The researchers propose a process model which suggests that operationally, fea...

as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

This discussion paper originates from the preceding annual workshop of the Special Interest Group on Social Conflict and Social Simulation (SIG-SCSS) of the ESSA. The workshop especially focused on the need to identify and examine challenges to modeling social conflicts. It turned out that the polysemous nature of social conflicts makes it very difficult to get a grasp of their complexity. In o...

taking both work and family roles in society simultaneously results in role conflict. this conflict may prevent one from performing each role effectively and this in turn may provoke serious work-family conflicts. usually there are more expectations for women concerning domestic and family affairs. the current study, applying merton’s theory, good’s theory and social support theory investigates...

India’s North-Eastern part, comprising of seven states, is a lowly developed, tribal population dominated region in India. Inspite of the common Mongoloid origin and lifestyle of majority of the population residing here, sharp differences exist in the status of their socio-economic development. The present paper, through a state-wise analysis, makes an attempt to find out the extent of this dis...

What differentiates successful from unsuccessful design teams? Building on new research on design innovation that emphasizes interactions between social and cognitive processes, we investigated a potential distinguishing feature: Successful design teams may harness interpersonal conflicts (a social design process) to mitigate uncertainty (a cognitive design process). We analyzed temporal relati...

The world is engulfed in different social events and conflicts. These events can have serious repercussions, not only on the geographical entity or time in which it is involved, but can affect the entire world across different time spans. Considering the 2 great world-wars [1], the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Bangladesh and more recently in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Egypt [2], such social u...