Individual and interactive processes in organizational conflict

The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 293-326

  Nicotera, Anne Maydan ^a   Dorsey, Laura Kathleen ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976176.n11     Document Type: Chapter

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