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Blair H. Sheppard

Professor Emeritus
Fuqua School of Business
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
Fuqua School of Business, 100 Fuqua Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Bridging Distance, Time, and Culture in Executive MBA Education

Journal Article Journal of Education for Business · January 1, 1999 This article summarizes student and instructor experiences in an innovative MBA program designed for working executives. We describe the social aspects of this learning process, especially with regard to learning in the distance mode. We note the challenge ... Full text Cite

The grammars of trust: A model and general implications

Journal Article Academy of Management Review · January 1, 1998 In this article we contend that trust can be conceptualized as four distinct and ordered forms - shallow dependence, shallow interdependence, deep dependence, and deep interdependence - determined by the nature of the interdependence between trusting parti ... Full text Cite

Interfirm relationships: A grammar of pairs

Journal Article RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, VOL 18, 1996 · January 1, 1996 Link to item Cite

Conflict, Social Competence, and Gender: Maternal and Peer Contexts

Journal Article Early Education and Development · January 1, 1995 The current study was designed to address two major purposes. The first goal was to investigate the joint influence of children's sociometric status and sex on their conflict behavior, and the second goal was to explore the similarities and differences in ... Full text Cite

Informal conflict intervention: Advice and dissent

Journal Article Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal · January 1, 1994 A disparity appears to exist between how managers are advised to handle conflict and the intervention methods that they utilize in actual practice. Normative advice tends to agree that managers should adopt a facilitative, mediatorlike role (e.g., Walton, ... Full text Cite

Unjust Dismissal in the Context of Organizational Justice

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · January 1, 1994 The issue of unjust dismissal is best understood by placing it in the broader context of a comprehensive model of organizational justice. This article presents such a model based on the application of two perceived principles of justice (balance and correc ... Full text Cite

Business on a handshake

Journal Article Negotiation Journal · October 1, 1992 Full text Cite

Business on a Handshake

Journal Article Negotiation Journal · October 1, 1992 Full text Cite

Employee voice to supervisors

Journal Article Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal · September 1, 1992 This article reports the results of two studies examining some factors that increase the likelihood that employees will voice to their supervisors. The way employees perceive that their supervisors manage employee voice was identified as a major cause of t ... Full text Cite

Conflict research as schizophrenia: The many faces of organizational conflict

Journal Article Journal of Organizational Behavior · January 1, 1992 Full text Cite

Social Status and Children's Orientations to Limited Resources

Journal Article Child Development · January 1, 1990 6‐year‐old children were paired according to their sociometric status and then confronted with 3 situations in which there was only 1 toy for the 2 children. Children's responses to these limited‐resource situations were coded in terms of a scheme reflecti ... Full text Cite

Memory performance by decision-making groups and individuals

Journal Article Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · January 1, 1989 Four-person groups and individuals performed memory and decision tasks in an investigation of the social processing of information. As predicted, groups recalled and recognized information better than individuals across a variety of measures and decision c ... Full text Cite

The art and science of mediation

Journal Article Negotiation Journal · April 1988 Full text Cite

Procedural Justice From the Third-Party Perspective

Journal Article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1988 We examined the effect of a concern for fairness on the dispute intervention behavior of lay third parties. Three hundred subjects, including parents, students, and managers, participated in structured interviews probing their most recent intervention in a ... Full text Cite

Toward general principles of managerial fairness

Journal Article Social Justice Research · June 1, 1987 The present study identified the principles employees use for judging a broad range of managerial actions. A cross-sectional sample of 44 executives were asked to describe recent fair and unfair treatment in seven areas of management responsibility: planni ... Full text Cite

Social Support and Adjustment in Gifted Adolescents

Journal Article Journal of Educational Psychology · January 1, 1987 We investigated the role of perceived social support in facilitating adjustment to a residential high school for the gifted in science and math. The relation between social support and adjustment appeared to depend on the sex of the student and the source ... Full text Cite

Do managers mediate, or even arbitrate?

Journal Article Negotiation Journal · October 1, 1985 Full text Cite

Justice Is No Simple Matter. Case for Elaborating Our Model of Procedural Fairness

Journal Article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · October 1, 1985 Past research has demonstrated that autocratic dispute intervention procedures (i.e., when a third party actively seeks out information about the dispute and then decides how it ought to be resolved) are perceived as less fair than arbitration procedures ( ... Full text Cite

Choosing how to intervene: Factors affecting the use of process and outcome control in third party dispute resolution

Journal Article Journal of Organizational Behavior · January 1, 1985 The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of three situational variables‐time pressure to resolve the dispute, expectation of future relations between disputants and range of impact of the settlement on future conflicts—on a third party's style o ... Full text Cite

Do Managers Mediate, Or Even Arbitrate?

Journal Article Negotiation Journal · January 1, 1985 Full text Cite

3RD PARTY CONFLICT INTERVENTION - A PROCEDURAL FRAMEWORK

Journal Article RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR · January 1, 1984 Link to item Cite

Beyond Fairness: The Criterion Problem in Research on Dispute Intervention

Journal Article Journal of Applied Social Psychology · January 1, 1983 Recent research has demonstrated that parties to a dispute attend to, and make evaluations of, the procedures that are used to resolve disputes. A central focus of this research has been on procedural and distributive fairness. Two studies were conducted i ... Full text Cite

Effects of affiliation-related motives on swimmers in individual versus group competition: A field experiment

Journal Article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1978 76 intercollegiate swimmers from 3 universities participated in both an individual and group competition 200-yd freestyle swim. Hypotheses were based on an expectancy-value approach, which emphasizes the negative as well as positive consequences of underta ... Full text Cite