Social face concerns and conflict avoidance of Chinese employees with their western or Chinese managers

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1031-1050

  Peng, Ann Chunyan ^a   Tjosvold, Dean ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

conflict avoidance; cross cultural interaction; face negotiation theory; social face concerns

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960701330     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711400927     Document Type: Article

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