Dynamics of Conflict Escalation

我专注于对从两家韩国公共广播公司收集的博士论文数据的额外分析，这两家公司在2012年联合经历了一场旷日持久的罢工。其中一个有趣的新发现是，不同职业群体之间的冲突升级过程存在差异。通过比较分析，我试图了解四个职业群体在职业文化和意识形态方面的差异，以及这些差异如何转化为不同类型的冲突解决机制。我在匹兹堡举行的劳资关系协会第67届年会上介绍了我的初步发现。新南威尔士大学的Yu Kyung-hee Yu教授对制度变革和组织政治进行了研究，她对我的研究表现出了兴趣，我们基于我的数据分析共同撰写了一篇文章，强调了冲突和罢工在制度变革过程中的作用。这篇文章被第31届欧洲组织研究组织在那不勒斯举行的年度研讨会接受。此外，我开始研究两家公共广播公司罢工结束后的冲突动态。特别是，我揭示了罢工后高级和初级组织成员之间的滥用监督，这一概念最近引起了许多学者的兴趣。我和首钢大学的钟善宇教授合作撰写了一篇论文，这篇论文在韩国管理学院会议上获得了最佳论文奖。

I focused on the additional analysis of data I collected for my doctoral dissertation from two South Korean public broadcasting corporations, which have jointly undergone a prolonged strike in 2012.One of the interesting emergent findings was the variations in conflict escalation process across different occupational groups. Through a comparative analysis, I tried to understand how four occupational groups differ from one another in terms of occupational culture and ideology and how the differences translated into different types of conflict resolution mechanisms.I presented my preliminary findings in the Labor and Employment Relations Associations (LERA) 67th Annual Meeting held in Pittsburg. Prof. Kyung-hee Yu at University of New South Wales, who has have done research on institutional change and organizational politics, showed her interest in my research and we co-authored an article based on my data analysis, which highlights the role of conflict and strike in the process of institutional change. The article is accepted to the 31st European Group for Organizational Studies annual colloquium in Naples.Also, I started looking into the conflict dynamics after the end of the strike of the two public broadcasters. In particular, I shed light on abusive supervision between the senior and junior organizational members in the post-strike situation, a notion which has recently drawn a lot of scholarly interest. I developed a paper in collaboration with Prof. Sunwook Chung at Sogang University, which won the best paper award in Korean Academy of Management conference.