International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 29 Issue 5

Positive or negative?: The role of native place enclave in the conflicts between migrant workers and their employers

Wanqing Wei, Wei Gao

In China, rural-to-urban migrant workers who are from the same place of origin tend to concentrate in the same workplace. If the concentration is sufficiently dense, it means that…

Labor relations and new generation employees: Subjective evaluation and implications for conflict management – an empirical analysis in China

Wei Xiong, Tao Wang

Feelings about conflict in labor relations are determined by both the objective conditions surrounding the dimension of labor relations and their subjective evaluation. This study…

More entrepreneur innovation and less labor conflicts – empirical evidence from China employer–employee survey

Tang Li, Yue Deng, Xu Jia, Zeyu Wang

Labor conflict has become a serious problem in recent China. From the perspective of entrepreneur innovation, this paper aims to find an effective path to eliminate this conflict…

Comparative case study: when brands handle online confrontations

Christine Hiu Ying Choy, Fang Wu

This study aims to examine the theoretical links among three important variables by empirically testing the cases of two international brands.

Openness to participating in a victim-offender conference: A theory of planned behavior perspective

Gregory Dennis Paul, William J. Schenck-Hamlin

This paper aims to use the theory of planned behavior to evaluate factors that influence openness to participating in a victim-offender conference (VOC).

Chinese strategic thinking on competitive conflict: insights from Yin-Yang harmony cognition

Tachia Chin, Chris Rowley, Gordon Redding, Shouyang Wang

Grounded in Yijing, the wellspring of Chinese philosophies, this research aims to propose a novel interpretation of the indigenous Yin-Yang harmony cognitive framework, and to…