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Conflict around Work and Organisations
NWO - Conflict programme line
Prof. J.M. Barendrecht (Chair)
Tilburg University
C. Brons
Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Prof. H. Dahles
VU University Amsterdam
Mr J.H. Helmons
Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
Prof. K.A. Jehn
Leiden University
Prof. J.M.W.G. Lucassen
International Institute of Social History
Prof. A. Nauta
Randstad HR Solutions
Prof. A.M. Riedl
Maastricht University
Introduction
The domain of work and organisation constitutes an arena in which diverging aims and
interests provide an inexhaustible source of conflict at local, national and international levels.
Conflict may emerge between different organisations or within organisations, or between
organisations and their social and political environments. Organisations and their constituent
individuals face turmoil and turbulence induced by events external and internal to them.
Examples are failing management, aggressive market strategies, worker exploitation and
discrimination (for reasons of gender, age, ethnic affiliation or physical disability), but also
accidents and disasters, to name but a few. Although theoretical and empirical research has
largely increased our knowledge of intra- and inter-organisational conflict, there are three
main areas where sufficient knowledge is sorely missing. These are: 1) more theoretically
driven empirical research that captures the increasingly dynamic and complex character of
intra- and inter-organisational conflict, especially in an international context; 2) theoretical
and empirical research examining organisational and work-related practices of governance
and policy making and 3) empirical research based on theory covering work-related
differences resulting from organisational conflict across national boundaries and in
multinational entities within national boundaries. In order to enhance our understanding of
current patterns of organisational conflict, an...