Top management teams may be critical for developing organizations that can keep abreast of marketplace changes and innovate. Several streams of strategy research have argued that conflict and diversity promote top management team effectiveness. This study proposes that how top management teams...

The open-minded discussion of opposing views may characterize effective inter-departmental relations. Working in diverse organizations in China, CEOs indicated their participation, people, and productivity values and Vice-Presidents indicated the constructive controversy of their departments and...

This study develops a model in which transformational leadership affects team coordination and performance through the conflict management approaches adopted by team members. Data were collected from three different sources in a lagged design from 108 teams in a large enterprise in China....