The executive way: conflict management in corporations

List of Figures and Tables List of Cases Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Setting the Scene 3: Patterns of Conflict Management in Thirteen Executive Contexts 4: Modern Times: Authoritative Conflict Management in a Mechanistic Bureaucracy 5: Silent Hives: Minimalistic Conflict Management in an Atomistic Organization 6: Brave New World: Reciprocal Conflict Management in a Matrix System 7: Conclusion: Orthodoxy, Change, and Identity Appendix A: Anatomy of an Ethnography of Business Elites Appendix B: Aggregate Comparative Data Appendix C: Glossary of Native Terms at Playco Notes References Index