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| Author: | Morrill, C. |
| Title: | Conflict management, honor, and organizational change |
| Journal: | American Journal of Sociology
1991 : NOV, VOL. 97:3, p.585-621 |
| Index terms: | CONFLICT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE EXECUTIVES UNCERTAINTY CONTROL ACCOUNTABILITY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Intracorporate executive conflict management is investigated in a Fortune 500 manufacturer via ethnographic methods. It focuses on the links between executive conflict management and widespread innovations in (1) top managerial formal structure and (2) hostile takeovers and their symbolic imagery. More specifically, it focuses on how these innovations disrupted the traditional social structure and "rules of the game" among top managers. The resulting new "culture of honor" suggests several implications for the study of managerial uncertainty, inertia , accountability, and control in contemporary American corporations. |
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