The relationship between conflict and performance has been studied for decades, but little is known about how and under what conditions task conflict among top managers affects firm-level outcomes.
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The relationship between conflict and performance has been studied for decades, but little is known about how and under what conditions task conflict among top managers affects firm-level outcomes.
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- Top management team functional diversity and organizational innovation in China: The moderating effects of environment (2012) · doi
Abstract While conflicts (cognitive and affective) have been considered as important process variables to better understand the mixed findings on the relationship between top management team functional diversity and organizational innovation, such an input‐process‐outcome model is still incomplete without considering the environmental factors.
Keywords: process abstract conflicts cognitive affective considered important variables better understand mixed relationship management team functional - The Effect of Conflict Type and Organizational Crisis on Perceived Strategic Decision Effectiveness (2015) · doi
These results help clarify the mixed findings about the effects of cognitive conflict within SDM teams and provide some insight on how SDM teams can maximize conflict in the decision-making process, without incurring its costs.
Keywords: conflict teams help clarify mixed effects cognitive within provide insight maximize decision making process without - A Contingency Model of Top Management Teams’ Task Conflict and Organizational-Level Outcomes: Evidence for a Curvilinear Relationship (2025) · doi
The relationship between conflict and performance has been studied for decades, but little is known about how and under what conditions task conflict among top managers affects firm-level outcomes.
Keywords: conflict relationship performance studied decades little known conditions task among managers affects firm level outcomes
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