Chinese employees' interpersonal conflict management strategies

International Journal of Conflict Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 382-412

  Nguyen, Hannah Hanh D ^a   Yang, Jie ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese conflict management strategy; Chinese people; Conflict resolution; Emic conflict management; International organizational practices; Organizational conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867176965     PISSN: 10444068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10444061211267272     Document Type: Article

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