Much of the literature related to organizational misbehavior focuses on individual level determinants while giving very little attention to the social factors. Although some scholars have suggested that organizational misbehavior is socially contagious, the mechanism that may facilitate such...

The relationship between information sharing in groups and group performance is often explained by effects on group decision making. We believe that information sharing can have other group process-related effects. We propose a model of how information sharing in teams affects task conflict,...

Numerous articles can be found in the management journals on the area of power and influence, both from the theoretical and empirical approaches. There is also a growing body of literature in the management publications on the subject of virtual teams and organizations. However, there is limited...

In this extended abstract, we review the preliminary findings from a study examining the relationship between conflict and creativity-relevant intragroup processes over time. More specifically, we examine whether task and relationship conflict have lingering effects on team creative processes...

Purpose – Voluntary employee turnover can be a challenge for all industries but high employee turnover has been a special concern in the hospitality industry, which is the context of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to incorporate a “trickle-down” perspective into the conventional...

This paper develops an expectancy model for Chinese–American differences in conflict-avoiding, and tests this model using a scenario study with respondents from Taiwan and the US. Our results show that a higher Chinese tendency to avoid conflict is explained by higher Chinese expectations that...