In the Short Term We Divide, in the Long Term We Unite: Demographic Crisscrossing and the Effects of Faultlines on Subgroup Polarization

Mäs, Michael; Flache, Andreas; Takács, Károly; A. Jehn, Karen

doi:10.1287/orsc.1120.0767

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In the Short Term We Divide, in the Long Term We Unite: Demographic Crisscrossing and the Effects of Faultlines on Subgroup Polarization

Published in Organization Science • Sep 11, 2012

Authors:

Michael Mäs

Andreas Flache

Károly Takács

Abstract

Do strong demographic faultlines breed opinion polarization in work teams? We integrate two theories that have been used to explain faultline effects. The first, the approach of Lau and Murnighan [Lau DC, Murnighan JK (1998) Demographic diversity and faultlines: The compositional dynamics of organiz...

Subject

Polarization (electrochemistry)

Sociology

Psychology

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