Conflict management and innovation performance: An integrated contingency perspective

In recent years, many of the basic assumptions underlying organizational conflict research have changed, drawing into question the validity of some previous research findings. Operating from the perspective that conflict is complex, multidimensional, and context specific, this research takes a fresh look at key conflict antecedents, mediators, and consequences in the context of the innovation process. The study investigates the relationships among five behavioral conflict-handling strategies, destructive and constructive conflict, and innovation performance as perceived by 290 R & D and marketing department managers. Empirical results both support and question some of the previous findings in conflict research. The results indicate that integrating, accommodating, compromising, forcing, and avoiding conflict-handling strategies can have different impacts on constructive and destructive conflict in an innovation context. Kelly Hewett (kelly_hewett@moore.sc.edu) is in the Department of Marketing at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on the management of relationships between buyers and sellers, as well as between headquarters and foreign subsidiaries in managing the marketing function globally. Her research has been published in theJournal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and theJournal of International Business Studies, among others. R. Bruce Money (moneyb@byu.edu) is the Donald Staheli Fellow and an associate professor of marketing and international business in the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. His articles have been published in journals such as theJournal of Marketing, theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, theJournal of International Business Studies, andSloan Management Review. His research interests include the international aspects of national culture’s measurement and effects, business-to-business marketing, word-of-mouth promo-tion, services marketing, and negotiation. Subhash Sharma (sharma@moore.sc.edu) is the James F. Kane Professor of Business in the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Professor Sharma’s research interests include marketing strategy, structural equation modeling, data mining, customer relationship management, e-commerce, the marketing-operations interface, and global marketing strategies. He has published numerous articles in these areas in leading academic journals such as theJournal of Marketing Research, theJournal of Marketing, Marketing Science, theJournal of Retailing, theJournal of Operations Management, theInternational Journal of Research in Marketing, andManagement Science. Professor Sharma has also authored two textbooks:Applied Multivariate Techniques (John Wiley, 1996) andScaling Procedures: Issues and Applications (with Richard G. Netemeyer and William O. Bearden, Sage, 2003). Professor Sharma was a member of the editorial boards of theJournal of Marketing Research and theJournal of Marketing and currently serves on the editorial review board of theJournal of Retailing.     

新会计准则的四大改进

中国新会计准则体系已于2006年2月15日正式发布,并于2007年1月1日起在上市公司率先实施。通过对新会计准则与原会计准则的比较,把握新会计准则的变化,对于贯彻实施新会计准则体系、提高上市公司质量、促进资本市场和谐稳定发展具有重要意义。本文认为新会计准则的四大改进为:会计目标定位于“受托责任观”与“决策有用观”的融合、会计信息质量强调相关性与重要性原则、会计要素的确认与计量国际趋同、财务报告体系更趋有用性。     

农民增收:建设社会主义新农村的保障

农民增收是解决农民问题的关键,也是构建和谐社会,建设社会主义新农村的保障。文章分析了农民增收的社会意义、我国农民收入现状及其原因,最后对农民增收的关键因素作了一些思考。     

新时期加强高职院校德育工作的几点思考

通过对新时期加强高职院校德育工作的必要性和重要性的分析,提出以创新德育理念为先导、以延伸和优化德育途径和方法为突破、以提高德育工作队伍素质为保障,努力开创德育工作的新局面。     

由非货币性交易新准则引发的一系列思考

为了适应我国企业经营方式的变化和提高证券市场会计信息披露的质量，财政部于2001年初对非货币性交易准则重新予以修订。新准则实施1年来，发挥了抑制关联交易、打击证券投资市场投机活动的重要作用，体现了会计准则的中国特色和国际化的有机协调。但任何事物都有其两面性，新准则在其具体实施过程中出现了准则和制度的衔接、自身的发展与完善等诸多问题，而此类问题的出现应当引起广大会计界人士的关注。     

中国西部新农村建设与城镇化

新农村建设是破解"三农"问题的有效途径,而农村城镇化是新农村建设的重要内容,是解决农村问题的重大战略.西部地区由于基础经济薄弱等方面的原因成为国家新农村建设和城镇化过程中的难点与重点.因此,在目前的新形势下,我们要正确处理好西部新农村建设和城镇化的关系,通过城镇化来带动新农村的建设,同时通过新农村的建设来促进农村的城镇化,以此推动西部农村经济社会的发展.     

新时期高校先进性教育长效机制建设浅议

高等学校是培养建设有中国特色社会主义事业接班人的重要阵地。如何教育、培养学生党员践行“三个代表”重要思想,充分发挥先锋模范作用,增强党的战斗力、凝聚力和吸引力,是高校学生党建工作的重要组成部分和基础环节。探索加强学生党员的思想政治教育、组织机制、制度建设、激励机制的建设,是新时期高校党建工作的一项重要课题。     

美国农业补贴政策的演变趋势分析

从1933年第一部系统的农业法开始实行以来,美国先后出台了数十个有关农业补贴的法律,对农业进行了长期高强度的补贴,形成了有特色的补贴体系.     

烟台农村城市化发展对策研究

分析了烟台实施农村城市化发展的基本原则,指出了烟台农村城市化的核心是发展城市经济、实施中等城市发展战略,与建设区域性中心城市相融合、与构筑现代化城市体系相适应,形成以中心城市为主体、北部沿海城市群和南部交通干线城市带为两翼、一批中心镇基础上的小城市为纽带的功能互补、协调发展的城市化格局。     

新时期高校学生工作探讨

新时期高校学生工作,面临着一系列新问题和新挑战。新时期高校学生工作的开展,必须树立全新的学生工作理念,构建全新的学生工作机制,提高学生工作者自身素质。