OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Conflict Management is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of ethnic conflict and foreign fighters on conflict duration: a statistical analysis	67
Mediation discourse in safeguarding the rights of the elderly: a critical discourse analysis based on televised mediation	35
Workplace bullying and employee silence: the role of affect-based trust and climate for conflict management	35
How, when and why do negotiators use reference points? A qualitative interview study with negotiation practitioners	34
Interpersonal conflict as a barrier to task performance: the mediating role of workplace deviance and the moderating role of emotional intelligence	25
Having no negotiation power does not matter as long as you can think creatively: the moderating role of age	25
Ripeness obscured: inductive lessons from Türkiye’s (transactional) mediation in the Russia–Ukraine war	24
Why is a modest gentleman cruel and ruthless? A study on the dark side effect of humble leadership – from the perspective of low-status compensation theory	21
Collaborative service robots and employee career sustainability: a mixed-methods study of trust and innovativeness as moderators	20
The three–way interactions of gender, supervisor’s gender, and country on the strategies for managing conflict of millennials: an exploratory study in 10 countries	18
Strategic adaptability in negotiation: a framework to distinguish strategic adaptable behaviors	18
Can loyal party members be flexible negotiators? Impacts of constituent support, term limits and bipartisan roles	17
How does team-level intragroup relationship conflict drive newcomers’ passivity and escape?: the role of social exclusion	16
Organisational readiness for workplace bullying interventions: conceptualisation and measurement	16
Whispers of wisdom? An information processing model of politics perceptions, incivility and citizenship behavior	15
Curbing relationship conflict for achieving green customer integration: roles of organizational commitment and influence strategy	15
Individual differences, job demands and job resources as boundary conditions for relations between experienced incivility and forms of instigated incivility	15
Before the first move: how group entitativity tips the balance between expecting cooperation or competition in negotiation	15
Managing complexity: addressing the civil conflict component of international-civil militarized conflicts (I-CMCs)	14
“Silent reactions”: a PLS-NCA study of workplace conflict and psychological contract breach	13
Managing interpersonal workplace conflict: a configurational approach	13
Negotiating at a distance: the impact of communication media and negotiator traits	11
Vertical conflict asymmetry between leaders and members: implications for individual and team creativity	11
Workplace bullying and diffident silence: a moderated mediation model of shame and core self-evaluation	11
Evaluating a dialogue-based bystander intervention for work-related gender-based violence and harassment: a mixed method pilot study	10

Mapping the knowledge base and theoretical evolution of workplace conflict outcomes: a bibliometric and qualitative review, 1972–2022	10
Sharing or hiding? The influence of perceived status disagreement on employee knowledge behaviors from the perspective of social comparison	10
Effect of construction project managers’ conflict management styles on team resilience: a moderated mediation model of team followership and team power distance	10
Don’t we have a right to get angry? Integrating emotions into international mediation studies	9
Navigating interpersonal conflict through workplace curiosity: a multilevel analysis in intensive care units	9
When do employees need warm leaders for higher performance? The moderated mediating effects of benevolent leadership	9
The hidden toll of unfair workplaces: examining the mediating role of workplace loneliness	9
Relationship of abusive supervision and employees’ helping behaviors: moderated-mediation perspective	9
Straight up, now tell me: is abusive supervision equivalent across gender and age?	9
The making of moonlighters: organizational disidentification as a behavioral response to workplace stressors	8
Conflict in virtual teams: a bibliometric analysis, systematic review, and research agenda	8
Bottom-line pursuits invade your family: the spillover effect of supervisor bottom-line mentality on employee work-to-family conflict	8
Relationship between team-level abusive supervision and team performance: a mediated moderation model	8
Coping with workplace bullying and emotional exhaustion: role of work engagement, loyalty, promotional opportunities and perceived social support	8
Abandoning good and following evil: a study on the dark side effect of self-sacrificial leadership—from the perspective of moral licensing	7
Peace by procedure: civil servants, metagovernance and the Northern Ireland peace process	7
The conflict coaching challenge: design and evaluation of an online conflict coach	7
How venture capitalists evaluate entrepreneurs’ track records of conflicts in investment decisions	7
The effectiveness in international mediation of international organizations	7
News photographs depicting the 2022 Russia–Ukraine conflict across Arab and Non-Arab news outlets	7
Conflict or enrichment? A comprehensive review of workfamily balance	7
Major powers’ management of complex peace relationships	7
Study on the influence mechanism of leaders’ abusive supervision on employees’ bootlegging innovation behavior	7
Does family incivility trigger suicidal ideation? The role of emotional exhaustion at work and regulation of emotion	7
The optimist’s arsenal: how employees’ trait optimism disarms ethical conflicts, mitigates deviance and promotes knowledge sharing	7
Indignation and conflict-associated behavior – does cognition matter?	7
A study on workplace incivility, interpersonal conflict, general self-efficacy and their effect on creativity and performance in India’s construction sector	6
Predicting non-violent work behaviour among employees using machine learning techniques	6
How task and relationship conflicts shape innovative job performance	6
Foreign language effect in negotiations: negotiation language and framing effect on contract terms and subjective outcomes	6
Natural-born peacemakers? Big five personality traits, gender, and interpersonal peacemaking	6
One style does not fit all: the relationship of mediator behavioral adaptivity to mediator empowerment, efficacy, and satisfaction	6
How competitive climates trigger conflict with colleagues and supervisors and how team knowledge sharing helps	6
The bright and dark sides of creativity in employee conflict management; the moderating role of competitive climate	6
Jokes and quarrels: a cross-cultural investigation of humor and conflict transformation in groups	5
The impact of abusive supervision on satisfaction with work–leisure balance: the role of work–leisure interfaces and idiosyncratic deals	5
The influence of focal-partner team leader bottom-line mentality congruence on inter-team conflict: the moderating role of feedback-seeking climate	5
A multilevel exploration of team conflicts and creativity: the role of empowering leadership behavior	5
Resolving conflict in interpersonal relationships using passive, aggressive, and assertive verbal statements	5
Conflict management style profiles moderate the impact of perceived pay-for-performance on innovative behavior	5
Modeling the interplay between emotional intelligence and conflict resolution styles: the mediating role of psychological empowerment	5
Service with a sense of belonging: navigating work–family conflict and emotional irritation in the service efforts of health professionals	5
Minority dissent, social acceptance and conflict transformation in multiparty systems	5
How and when valueless information sharing undermines team cooperative performance: an interteam perspective	5
Influence of robot leaders’ conflict management styles on work performance	5
Reap what you sow: the impact of negative workplace gossip sent by supervisors on quiet quitting through psychological safety and quiescent silence	4
Toward an event-oriented conceptualization of conflict: reflections on three decades of conflict research	4
A tale of two paths: the divergent effects of anger and compassion in face-to-face versus computer-mediated dispute negotiations	4
Nested insider-partial mediator: South Korea’s mediation in the US–DPRK crisis in 2017–2018	4
Conflict personalization: a systematic literature review and the development of an integrative definition	4

A multilevel investigation of team relationship conflict and employee-level subjective career success	4
Editorial: The future of research on artificial intelligence in conflict management	4
From a restless pillow to a ruffled mind: testing a moderated mediation model of off-the-job antecedents of abusive supervision	4
The overlap between workplace bullying and organizational dissent in New Zealand	4
United we stand: a principle-based negotiation training for collective bargaining	4
A little humor goes a long way? The influence of humor on offer acceptance in one-shot online negotiations	4
A role that takes its toll? The moderating role of leadership in role stress and exposure to workplace bullying	4
Who is cooperative in negotiations? The impact of political skill on cooperation, reputation and outcomes	4
Multicultural conflict cultures: more similarities than differences in diverse societies	4
Escalation of relationship conflict into work disengagement: uncovering mediation mechanisms	4
The increase of counterproductive work behaviour from organizational and individual level due to workplace conflict: a sequential moderated mediation model	3
The determinants of abusive supervision	3
The relationship between management vs nonmanagement status and women employees’ dissent expression in US organizations	3
The effect of interpersonal conflict on employee behaviors: the role of perception of politics and competence uncertainty	3
How does abusive supervision differentiation affect employee work-family conflict? A moderated chain mediation model	3
Perceptions and types of conflicts among Spanish university students. Influence of gender and religion	3
Supporting resolution: the impact of supervisors on workplace conflict management	3
Conflict with customers: the limits of social support and job autonomy in preventing burnout among customer service workers	3
Boundary violations and teleworker counterproductive work behavior: the role of working time demands, threat to family role and involuntary teleworking	3
Navigating the innovation dilemma: the paradox of leader’s self-confidence in conflict management	3
The future of work: understanding the differential impact of physical and digital workspaces on hybrid IT workers	3
From frustration to workplace conflict: examining supervisor job demands, downward bullying and the role of personality and power dynamics	2
Narcissism and tradition: how competing needs result in more conflict, greater exhaustion, and lower performance	2
Unraveling the link between innovative work behavior and despotic leadership: the roles of supervisor conflict and dispositional resistance to change trait	2
Publisher’s note	2
Despotic vs narcissistic leadership: differences in their relationship to emotional exhaustion and turnover intentions	2
Embracing the complexity of international conflict management	2
Caring for those in your charge: the role of servant leadership and compassion in managing bullying in the workplace	2
From intra-team conflict to interpersonal strain: the role of leader’s interpersonal modulation of emotional responses and sex	2
Interpersonal conflict and psychological well-being at work: the beneficial effects of teleworking and emotional intelligence	2
When work stressors fail, teams prevail: a job demands-resources perspective	2
Family incivility and workplace bullying: mediating and moderating model of psychological safety, optimism and organization-based self-esteem	2
When injustice triggers retaliation: examining the dual impact of power distance orientation	2
What makes a serial argument serial? Conceptualizing seriality in relational conflict	2
Linking workplace loneliness to workplace territoriality: a self-protection perspective	2
The morality of violence: the legitimate use of violence as a conflict resolution strategy	2
Guanxi in turmoil: role of employee vigor in combating defensive silence and workplace incivility	2
Face threats in conflict escalation: politeness theory versus social interactionist theory	2
Perceived organizational politics and workplace gossip: the moderating role of compassion	2
Tearing the dream apart: how and when task, process and relationship conflicts lead to cofounders’ entrepreneurial exit intentions	2
I am done now! Linking workplace incivility to job search behaviour and employee silence	2
Adapting Johari’s window to resolve construction disputes	2
Opening the black box of entrepreneurial team conflict: how does entrepreneurial team conflict affect entrepreneurial performance?	2
Whether and when team task conflict and relationship conflict transform over time: a meta-analysis based on cross-lagged panel model	2