International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 34 Issue 3

Workplace bullying and diffident silence: a moderated mediation model of shame and core self-evaluation

Arathi Krishna, Devi Soumyaja, C.S. Sowmya

Workplace bullying generates various emotions, including shame in the target; these emotions can induce employee silence. However, the role of shame in the relationship between…

Do managers’ negotiation styles make employees’ relational justice-emotional experiences links sporadic?

Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Ayesha Shakoor, Malik Ikramullah, Tamania Khan

Being grounded in interdependence theory, this study aims to address the following research question: Do managers’ negotiation styles (collaborative versus competitive) make…

Multicultural conflict cultures: more similarities than differences in diverse societies

Nathalie Desrayaud, Carolyn M. Hurley

This study aims to understand how cultural variables – collectivism and face concerns – influence perceived and ideal organizational conflict cultures in two multicultural…

Toward an event-oriented conceptualization of conflict: reflections on three decades of conflict research

Lihan Zhang, Yongcheng Fu, Wenxue Lu, Jian Liu

How to depict conflict characteristics? Previous literature has overwhelmingly used intensity and frequency of conflict, resulting in an incomplete understanding of conflict…

From a restless pillow to a ruffled mind: testing a moderated mediation model of off-the-job antecedents of abusive supervision

Samson Samwel Shillamkwese, Qingxiong (Derek) Weng, Hirra Pervez Butt, Hussain Tariq, Zahid Hameed

Although work-related antecedents of abusive supervision are well-known, knowledge on the cross-domain antecedents of this destructive leadership behavior is scarce. Accordingly…

All stressors are not bad: an affect-based model of role overload – the supervisor-level antecedent of abusive supervision

Hussain Tariq, Abdullah Almashayekhi, Ahsan Ali, M. Burhan, Hirra Pervez Butt

Expanding on the research of the antecedents of abusive supervision, this study aims to explore supervisor role overload as a supervisor-level predictor of abusive supervision…

The interaction effect of trust and contract on dispute negotiation strategy: evidence from the Chinese construction industry

Yafan FU, Yangyang Luo

This paper aims to investigate how and when different dimensions of trust and contracts interact to influence the development to negotiation strategies. Specifically, it explores…

The effects of ethnic conflict and foreign fighters on conflict duration: a statistical analysis

Oğuzhan Pehlivan, Yunus Gokmen

Foreign fighters (FFs) appeared in at least approximately one-fourth of conflicts over the past 200 years. This study aims to reveal the impact of FFs in conflicts, whether they…

Helpful or hurtful? A study on the behavior choice of bystanders in the context of abusive supervision

Wu Wei, Hao Chen, Jie Feng, Jingya Li

The purpose of this study is to reveal the mechanism of peer abusive supervision on bystander behavior based on the perspective of bystander from two different paths of bystander…