Conceptions of Conflict in Organizational Conflict Research: Toward Critical Reflexivity

Mikkelsen, EN; Clegg, S

Conceptions of Conflict in Organizational Conflict Research: Toward Critical Reflexivity

Mikkelsen, EN Clegg, S

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Citation:: Journal of Management Inquiry, 2019, 28 (2), pp. 166 - 179
Issue Date:: 2019-04-01

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dc.contributor.author	Mikkelsen, EN	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:04:31Z
dc.date.issued	2019-04-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Management Inquiry, 2019, 28 (2), pp. 166 - 179	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1056-4926	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123867
dc.description.abstract	© The Author(s) 2017. Diverse and often unacknowledged assumptions underlie organizational conflict research. In this essay, we identify distinct ways of conceptualizing conflict in the theoretical domain of organizational conflict with the aim of setting a new critical agenda for reflexivity in conflict research. In doing so, we first apply a genealogical approach to study conceptions of conflict, and we find that three distinct and essentially contested conceptions frame studies of conflict at work. Second, we employ two empirical examples of conflict to illustrate how organizational conflict research can benefit from a more reflexive approach and advance our understanding of conflict. In this essay, we emphasize how philosophical and political assumptions about conflict frame knowledge production within the field and we encourage future theory development to build on different notions of conflict to become better at coping with the complex and dynamic nature of conflict.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Management Inquiry	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1056492617716774	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management	en_US
dc.title	Conceptions of Conflict in Organizational Conflict Research: Toward Critical Reflexivity	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	28	en_US
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	28	en_US

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© The Author(s) 2017. Diverse and often unacknowledged assumptions underlie organizational conflict research. In this essay, we identify distinct ways of conceptualizing conflict in the theoretical domain of organizational conflict with the aim of setting a new critical agenda for reflexivity in conflict research. In doing so, we first apply a genealogical approach to study conceptions of conflict, and we find that three distinct and essentially contested conceptions frame studies of conflict at work. Second, we employ two empirical examples of conflict to illustrate how organizational conflict research can benefit from a more reflexive approach and advance our understanding of conflict. In this essay, we emphasize how philosophical and political assumptions about conflict frame knowledge production within the field and we encourage future theory development to build on different notions of conflict to become better at coping with the complex and dynamic nature of conflict.

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