Conflict and Complexity: Goal Diversity and Organizational Search Effectiveness
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Political Science Review
- Vol. 78 (2) , 435-451
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1963374
Abstract
There is a long-standing concern in organization theory with the effect of conflict on search. This article uses a computer model of organizational decision making to demonstrate an effect called “search-enhancing conflict”: organizational decision-making performance when there are conflicting subgoals may be better than it would be if all subunits evaluated alternatives in terms of a single organizational goal.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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