Integrating, Contending, Yielding or Avoiding? A Survey Experiment on City Managers’ Choice of Conflict Management Strategies

• In Event: Behavioral and Experimental Research in Public Administration

Brief Overview

This research will take a contingency perspective and use survey experiment design to investigate city manager’s preference of conflict dealing strategies when confronting task conflict with city council.

Authors

• Rusi Sun, University of Michigan - Dearborn

• Shuyang Peng, University of New Mexico

• Yuguo Liao, University of Missouri, St. Louis