Avoiding, obliging, asserting, or integrating? A survey experiment on municipal managers’ choice of conflict management strategies

Rusi Sun; Shuyang Peng; Yuguo Liao

doi:10.1080/14719037.2021.1977525

Avoiding, obliging, asserting, or integrating? A survey experiment on municipal managers’ choice of conflict management strategies

Rusi Sun, Shuyang Peng, Yuguo Liao

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Original language	American English
Journal	Public Management Review
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1977525
State	Published - 2021

Keywords

Conflict management
municipal manager
survey experiment

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Political Science

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