Conflict in Business, Management & Economics

Conflict is traditionally described as friction from opposition resulting in actual or perceived differences or incompatibilities.

To acknowledge the interdisciplinary nature of Conflict, we have identified key research and topics for an exciting free access collection. Explore the collection for the latest research into international crises, terrorism, civil war, workplace conflict and more.

Enjoy free access to articles in this collection until the end of 2016!

• Conflict in Economics
• Conflict in Business & Management

Conflict in Economics

• The short- and long-run relationship between the illicit drug business and terrorism

  • Applied Economics Letters
  • Daniel Meierrieks & Friedrich Schneider

• Are female politicians more responsive to international crises?

  • Applied Economics Letters
  • Daniel L. Hicks, Joan Hamory Hicks & Beatriz Maldonado

• Democratization and civil war

  • Applied Economics
  • Laura E. Armey & Robert M. McNab

• Bankers on the Board, Market Competition, and Conflicts of Interest

  • Global Economic Review
  • Taeyoon Sung & Danbee Park

• Unpacking Widow Headship and Agency in Post-Conflict Nepal

  • Feminist Economics
  • Smita Ramnarain

• Patent now or later? Corporate financing decisions, agency costs and social benefits

  • The European Journal of Finance
  • Ricardo Correia, Sydney Howell & Peter Duck

• Destroying collateral: asset security and the financing of firms

  • Applied Economics Letters
  • Janet Rubin & Rodrigo Wagner

• Powerful CEOs and capital structure decisions: evidence from the CEO pay slice (CPS)

  • Applied Economics Letters
  • Pandej Chintrakarn, Pornsit Jiraporn & Manohar Singh

• Resource rents, institutions, and violent civil conflicts

  • Defence and Peace Economics
  • Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi & Raimundo Soto

• Institutions, information, and commitment: the role of democracy in conflict

  • Defence and Peace Economics
  • James T. Bang & Aniruddha Mitr

• Externalities in Military Spending and Growth: The Role of Natural Resources as a Channel through Conflict

  • Defence and Peace Economics
  • Vusal Musayev

• Does aid cause conflict in Pakistan?

  • Defence and Peace Economics
  • Nadia Tahir

• The timing of third-party intervention in social conflict

  • Defence and Peace Economics
  • Yang-Ming Chang, Zijun Luo & Yongjing Zhang

• Contemporary perceptions of the First World War reflected in the capital markets

  • Scandinavian Economic History Review
  • David S. Adams

• The awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: war, the draft and other economic determinants

  • Applied Economics
  • Barry R. Chiswick, Nicholas Larsen & Paul Pieper

• The doughboy premium: an empirical assessment of the relative wages of American veterans of World War I

  • Applied Economics Letters
  • Paul E. Gabriel

• ‘Cooperation on a purely matter-of-fact basis’: the Norwegian central bank and its relationship to the German supervisory authority during the occupation, 1940–1945

  • Scandinavian Economic History Review
  • Harald Espeli

Conflict in Business & Management

• Innovation and pragmatism in tax design: Excess Profits Duty in the UK during the First World War

  • Accounting History Review
  • Mark Billings & Lynne Oats

• ‘A paradise for profiteers’? The importance and treatment of profits during the First World War

  • Accounting History Review
  • Anthony J. Arnold

• Haskins & Sells during the First World War and its aftermath

  • Accounting History Review
  • Dale L. Flesher & Gary J. Previts

• Budgetary practices in the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Munitions in Italy, 1915–1918

  • Accounting History Review
  • Valerio Antonelli, Raffaele D'Alessio & Roberto Rossi

• Cartoons as alternative accounting: front-line supply in the First World War

  • Accounting History Review
  • F.M. Mileya & A.F. Read

• Administrative values in the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong public services: a comparative analysis

  • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
  • Ian Scott & Ting Gong

• Interlocking directorates and conflicts of interest: the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging, Müller & Co. and the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s

  • Business History
  • Christopher L. Colvin

• Supplier networks in the German aircraft industry during World War II and their long-term effects on West Germany's automobile industry during the ‘Wirtschaftswunder’

  • Business History
  • Jonas Scherner, Jochen Streb & Stephanie Tilly

• Discursive strategies for navigating the terrain between the sacred and the profane

  • Culture and Organization
  • Christina Schwabenland

• African Union and Intra-State Conflict Resolution: A Return to the Libyan Crisis (2011)

  • International Journal of Public Administration
  • Adeline Nnenna Idike & Sylvia Uchenna Agu

• Managing Goal Commitment in Public Organizations: The Effects of Goal Conflict

  • International Journal of Public Administration
  • Camilla Denager Staniok

• Contractual Conditions, Organizational Level, Dimension of Organization, and Work Conflict as Potential Predictors of Job Stress in Public Administration

  • International Journal of Public Administration
  • Francesca Di Virgilioa*, Nicoletta Bovaa, Loredana Di Pietroa &Lorn Sheehanb

• Only If We Agree? How Value Conflicts Moderate the Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Public Service Motivation

  • International Journal of Public Administration
  • Julie Alsøe Krogsgaard, Pernille Thomsen & Lotte Bøgh Andersen

• Managing housing needs in post conflict housing reconstruction in Sri Lanka: gaps verses recommendations

  • International Journal of Strategic Property Management
  • Krisanthi Seneviratne, Dilanthi Amaratung & Richard Haigh

• Recurring Challenges as Main Constraints to AU/NEPAD Projects

  • Journal of African Business
  • Richard Ilorah

• Processual antecedents of perceived channel conflict in franchising

  • Journal of Business Economics and Management
  • Scott K. Weaven, Debra A. Grace, Lorelle Frazera & Jeffery Giddings

• Role conflict and changing heritage practice: ancestral tourism in Scotland

  • Journal of Marketing Management
  • Samantha Murdy, Matthew Alexander & Derek Bryce

• Judgments under uncertainty: evaluations of univocal, ambiguous and conflicting probability information

  • Journal of Risk Research
  • Vivianne H.M. Visschers

• Capturing an elusive phenomenon: developing and testing a multiple perspective model of marketing strategy implementation

  • Journal of Strategic Marketing
  • Brian David Smith

• Work–life interaction in the twenty-first century Australian workforce: five years of the Australian Work and Life Index

  • Labour & Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work
  • Janine Chapman, Natalie Skinner & Barbara Pocock

• An organizational culture of secrecy: the case of Bletchley Park

  • Management & Organizational History
  • Christopher Grey

• The moderating effect of relationship conflict on the creative climate–innovation association: the case of traditional sectors in Spain

  • The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • M.C. Gisbert-López, A.J. Verdú-Jovera & J.M. Gómez-Grasa

• Containing conflict: a relational approach to the study of high-involvement work practices in the health-care setting

  • The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • Eun Kyung Lee, Woonki Hong & Ariel C. Avgar

• Influence of managerial support on work–life conflict and organizational commitment: an international comparison for India, Peru and Spain

  • The International Journal of Human Rights
  • Tanuja Agarwala, Amaia Arizkuren-Eleta, Elsa Del Castillo,Marta Muñiz-Ferrer & Leire Gartzi

• Explicating customer orientation's influence on frontline employee satisfaction

  • The Service Industries Journal
  • Elten Briggs, Fernando Jaramillo & Fabrizio Nobo

• Multidimensional and mediating relationships between TQM, role conflict and role ambiguity: A role theory perspective

  • Total Quality Management and Business Excellence
  • Pei-Lee Teh, Chen-Chen Yong & Binshan Lin