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What causes conflict among high-level American corporate executives? How do executives manage their conflicts? Based on interviews with over 200 executives and their support personnel, this book details the ways managers handle routine conflicts created by their company's organizational structure.

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List of Figures and Tables List of Cases Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Setting the Scene 3: Patterns of Conflict Management in Thirteen Executive Contexts 4: Modern Times: Authoritative Conflict Management in a Mechanistic Bureaucracy 5: Silent Hives: Minimalistic Conflict Management in an Atomistic Organization 6: Brave New World: Reciprocal Conflict Management in a Matrix System 7: Conclusion: Orthodoxy, Change, and Identity Appendix A: Anatomy of an Ethnography of Business Elites Appendix B: Aggregate Comparative Data Appendix C: Glossary of Native Terms at Playco Notes References Index

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 6/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226538730, 978-0226538730
      ISBN10: 0226538737
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What causes conflict among high-level American corporate executives? How do executives manage their conflicts? Based on interviews with over 200 executives and their support personnel, this book details the ways managers handle routine conflicts created by their company's organizational structure.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures and Tables List of Cases Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Setting the Scene 3: Patterns of Conflict Management in Thirteen Executive Contexts 4: Modern Times: Authoritative Conflict Management in a Mechanistic Bureaucracy 5: Silent Hives: Minimalistic Conflict Management in an Atomistic Organization 6: Brave New World: Reciprocal Conflict Management in a Matrix System 7: Conclusion: Orthodoxy, Change, and Identity Appendix A: Anatomy of an Ethnography of Business Elites Appendix B: Aggregate Comparative Data Appendix C: Glossary of Native Terms at Playco Notes References Index

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