Greetings to Everyone,

January 31, 2010 is the deadline for paper submission to the Special Issue on Asymmetry at Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.  Please see below for more information and we look forward to receiving your papers!

Submission Instructions:

Please submit manuscripts online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ncmr by January 31, 2010. When submitting please be sure to click on the "Special Issue" submission link.

Best,

Kathy Phillips

P.S.  Sorry for cross-postings

CALL FOR PAPERS

NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

SPECIAL ISSUE

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:  How asymmetric perceptions color our experience

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 31, 2010

Guest Editors

Sherry M.B. Thatcher, College of Business, University of Louisville

Katherine W. Phillips, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the idea of asymmetry in negotiation experiences and within groups, whereby group members' have varying perceptions, beliefs, experiences and emotions related to negotiation and group processes. Most of the research on groups and teams in organizations assume that members possess shared properties – for example, all members perceive the same level of conflict within a team. However, we know that different group members may perceive, feel, and experience situations differently. Asymmetry on any dimension (e.g., diversity perceptions, power, trust, justice, communication) may lead to increased problems and difficulties within organizational relationships. By exploring the asymmetry of perceptions, beliefs, experiences, and emotions within organizational relationships, researchers may be better able to explain negotiation and group processes, as well as individual and group level performance, turnover, and morale than past models of negotiation and group processes.

The idea of asymmetry has potential implications for many areas of research across multiple levels of the organization. For this special issue we would like to invite researchers investigating any aspect of asymmetry to submit a paper. Potential research questions include:

• What dimensions of asymmetry (e.g., trust, diversity perceptions) are likely to lead to problems, difficulties, and conflict within dyads, groups, and negotiation teams?
• What are the antecedents (e.g., diversity, faultlines, power) of asymmetrical perceptions and emotions within dyads, groups, and negotiation teams?
• What are the theoretical mechanisms explaining the effects of asymmetrical perceptions and emotions?
• What are the most important group processes (e.g., conflict, trust, communication, knowledge sharing, justice perceptions) affected by perceptual and emotional asymmetry?
• Can measurement of asymmetry be improved?
• Is it possible to buffer or reverse the negative effects of asymmetry?
• How can organizational practice deal with asymmetry?
• Are the effects of asymmetry always negative?
• What individual, group, and organizational outcomes are most affected by asymmetry?

For further information, please contact one of the guest editors:

Sherry Thatcher                smthat01@louisville.edu

Katherine Phillips             kwp@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Submission Instructions:

Please submit manuscripts online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ncmr by January 31, 2010. When submitting please be sure to click on the "Special Issue" submission link.

Katherine Phillips

Kellogg School of Management

Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Co-Director Center on the Science of Diversity

kwp@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-467-6882

Fax: 847-491-8896