Conflict, Power, and Organization in a Changing Community

Bibliographic Data

ID9890167
AuthorsBarbara Gray Gricar (College of Business Administration, 609 Business Administration Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802., corresponding author), L Dave Brown (Institute for Development Research)
Year1981
Volume34
Issue10
Pages877-893
Publication date1981-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/001872678103401004
OpenAlexW2171108319
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited21

This paper analyzes a case study of conflict among groups of differing power in a community, drawing upon two distinct traditions of conflict theory: integrative and adversarial. The paper examines the evolution of organization within and among groups over a two-year period and the impacts of that evolution on conflict among them. Essentially, a new organization, composed of representatives of the groups in conflict, was created, and mechanisms for regulating information exchange and for handling differences were evolved that reduced the conflict among them. The evolution of the Committee on Residential Lending (CORL) as an institution is examined from the vantage points of level of organization and balancing unequal power relations, and implications for joint use of integrative and adversarial conflict traditions are considered. Three propositions for guiding the joint use of the two traditions are articulated and illustrated

Adversarial system · Conflict resolution · Conflict theories · Group conflict · Institution · Period (music · Political science · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Accounting and Organizational Management · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Psychology · Social Psychology

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