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Call for Papers: NCMR Special Issue on Power, Status, and Conflict

  • 1.  Call for Papers: NCMR Special Issue on Power, Status, and Conflict

    Posted 11-24-2011 11:02

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

     

    SPECIAL ISSUE:

    POWER, STATUS, AND CONFLICT

     

    DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 1, 2012

     

    Guest Editors

    Corinne Bendersky, <st1:city w:st="on">Anderson</st1:city> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename></st1:place>, UCLA

    Lindred L. Greer, Work & Organizational Psychology, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on"> Amsterdam</st1:placename></st1:place>

                                                                                                                                     

    Social hierarchies are shaped by the contested negotiation among individuals to gain and maintain power and status to pursue their interests. For example, organizational members may attempt to change the social hierarchy or their positions in it in order to gain leverage over others and to obtain valued resources. Relatedly, when challenged in such situations, organizational members may draw on their own sources of power and status to protect their resources. Thus, power and status may be the resources over which conflicts and negotiations occur as well as inputs that shape the processes by which conflicts and negotiations unfold. Despite this fundamental relevance to conflict situations, still much remains to be learned about these dynamic hierarchy contests and the associated roles of power and status in conflict and negotiation. By exploring the role of power, status, and dynamic contest over them in situations of conflict and negotiation, researchers may be able to better understand the fundamental nature and dynamics of negotiation and conflict, and their impacts on individual, group, organizational, and societal outcomes.

     

    For this special issue we would like to invite researchers investigating any aspect of power and status in conflict and negotiation to submit a paper. Potential research questions include:

     

    ·         What individual, group, and organizational outcomes are most affected by power, status, and conflict?

    ·         How can individuals best leverage their power and status positions to influence negotiation and conflict outcomes?

    ·         When and why are power and status contests good or bad for individuals, dyads, groups, and organizations?

    ·         What are the antecedents of struggles over status and power within dyads, groups, and negotiation teams?

    ·         Can measurement of power, status, and their conflicts be improved?

    ·         How can organizations manage power and politics in organizations?

     

    These questions are meant to provoke thought and are not an inclusive list of topics that would be relevant to this special issue. We would like with this special issue to explore and deepen theories of power and status in conflict and negotiation situations.

     

    For further information, please contact the guest editors:

    Corinne Bendersky        corinne.bendersky@anderson.ucla.edu

    Lindred L. Greer           L.L.Greer@uva.nl

     

    Submission Instructions:

    Please submit manuscripts online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ncmr by May 1, 2012. When submitting please be sure to click on the "Special Issue" submission link.

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