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Conflict Management, Team Coordination, and Performance Within Multicultural Temporary Projects: Evidence From the Construction Industry

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: The purpose of our study is to enhance the understanding of relationships between conflict management style, team coordination, and performance in multicultural project team contexts. We investigate how conflict management can contribute to team effectiveness through the mediation of the level of team coordination by collecting data from 126 team leaders and supervisors and 378 members nested in different multicultural projects in the construction industry. Our results show that, contrary to the findings from prior research in other team contexts, an avoiding style of conflict management can have a positive impact on the performance of multicultural project teams.

Source: Project Management Journal

DOI: 10.1177/8756972818818257

Authors: Amin Akhavan Tabassi, Aldrin Abdullah, David James Bryde

Institutions: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Liverpool John Moores University

Language: English

Topic: Conflict Management and Negotiation

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2905937324

FWCI: 8.531

Cites: 87

Cited by: 113

Related to: 10