International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 29 Issue 4

Governance conflict in Chinese family firms: Managed by family-based managers or external managers?

Fan Yu, Pingtian Wang, Yun Bai, Dandan Li

According to the real environment of China, the authors collect micro data about Chinese family firms (FFs) to explain why some Chinese FFs still tend to introduce external…

Do labour unions mitigate labour conflicts in China’s manufacturing firms?: Evidence from the China employer-employee survey

Hanbing Fan, Yiming Dong, Dezhuang Hu, Lianfa Luo

This paper aims to examine whether labour unions influence labour conflicts and this mechanism is different in China compared with other countries.

A process model of social intelligence and problem-solving style for conflict management

Afzalur Rahim, Ismail Civelek, Feng Helen Liang

This study aims to explore the relationship between social intelligence (SI) and problem-solving (PS) style of handling conflict.

Dealing with an abusive boss in China: The moderating effect of promotion focus on reward expectancy and organizational citizenship behavior

Wei Zeng, Ying Zhou, Zhengyu Shen

This study aims to examine how reward expectancy mediates the effect of abusive supervision on organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore, drawing upon regulatory focus…

Conflict management in family businesses: A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review

Andrea Caputo, Giacomo Marzi, Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini, Riccardo Rialti

The purpose of this study is to map the intellectual structure of the field of conflict management and the field of family business to the investigation of conflicts in family…

Validity of self-reported conflict handling preferences and the role of self-enhancement

Kirsten E. Johnson, Judith A. Hall

This paper aims to assess predictive and convergent validity of a trait measure of conflict handling styles (DUTCH) with two alternative methods of measuring such styles: a…

Toward real justice for all rebooting justice

Barry Goldman