Conflict Management through the Lens of System Dynamics
系统分析了冲突研究中动态过程的不足，引入系统动力学框架来重新解释和综合跨层次的静态因果发现，并展示其如何解决任务冲突效用等难题，为冲突管理研究提供新视角。
A fundamental concern in conflict management research is characterizing (dys)functional conflict; what is missing from this conversation is dynamics. We thus provide a systematic analysis of the ways in which dynamics have been investigated in prior conflict research and show how dynamics have been incompletely explained even when the research intended to focus on such dynamic processes. We demonstrate how the conceptual frameworks used to study conflict are not built to capture dynamic change and review a different framework, the system dynamics (SD) framework, as a means to move beyond linear causality. We next show how using the SD framework we can reinterpret and synthesize a multitude of static cause and effect findings from across levels of analysis in conflict research. We demonstrate how this framework may solve some of the Gordian knots in research on conflict utility (e.g., why task conflict may not be as helpful as it is theorized). We close with suggestions for how to use the SD framework to advance the study of conflict beyond what linear causality can provide and capture conflict dynamics in a more substantial way.