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Conflict, cooperation and trust in three power systems

Conflict, cooperation and trust in three power systems The central variables of power, conflict, cooperation and trust have traditionally been employed in a context‐irrelevant fashion as general theoretical explanations for many social phenomena at the levels of organisms or persons, groups, organizations, societies and even supranational systems. This paper questions the assumed high cross‐system applicability of these concepts by outlining three different prototypical power systems which seem to find frequent expression in everyday life: the unilateral power system, in which a strong source imposes influence on a weak target; the mixed power system, in which partially equivalent interactants bargain to agreement or deadlock; and the bilateral power system, in which interactants are in unit relation and formulate joint policy programs. Power, conflict, cooperation and trust are all found to require substantially different definition and treatment when considered in one as opposed to another of these prototypical systems. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Systems Research & Behavioral Science Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
"Copyright © 1976 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company"
ISSN
1092-7026
eISSN
1099-1743
DOI
10.1002/bs.3830210605
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Abstract

The central variables of power, conflict, cooperation and trust have traditionally been employed in a context‐irrelevant fashion as general theoretical explanations for many social phenomena at the levels of organisms or persons, groups, organizations, societies and even supranational systems. This paper questions the assumed high cross‐system applicability of these concepts by outlining three different prototypical power systems which seem to find frequent expression in everyday life: the unilateral power system, in which a strong source imposes influence on a weak target; the mixed power system, in which partially equivalent interactants bargain to agreement or deadlock; and the bilateral power system, in which interactants are in unit relation and formulate joint policy programs. Power, conflict, cooperation and trust are all found to require substantially different definition and treatment when considered in one as opposed to another of these prototypical systems.

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Systems Research & Behavioral ScienceWiley

Published: Nov 1, 1976

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