Extremist Groups And Conflict Resolution: The Move Crisis In Philadelphia [Hardcover]

This work is both a theoretical and empirical analysis of the growing use of ideological control in business and administrative organizations. The empirical studies reported in this volume were conducted in different types of organizations and in different countries (Poland, the United States, and Sweden). Throughout this unique examination, the author emphasizes the role of ideologies as vehicles for organizational change--not, as traditionally seen, as instruments for maintaining the status quo.

HIZKIAS ASSEFA is Assistant Professor of Administration and Management, La Roche College, Graduate Program, Pittsburgh.

PAUL WAHRHAFTIG is President of the Conflict Resolution Center, Inc., in Pittsburg and a practicing mediator.

Part I: Powelton Village, 1978
Introduction
Historical Background
The Evolution of the Conflict
The Parties and the Issues
Third-Party Intervention: Early Period
Third-Party Intervention: Later Period
Part II: Osage, 1985
The Road to Osage Begins in Powelton
Crisis Intervention