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"Serge Moscovici and Willem Doise′s remarkable monograph supplies the strongest argument possible for revisiting experimental social psychology and to go beyond the intuitively attractive but theoretically insubstantial management literature on groups. They have conducted an exhaustive and masterly review of the research evidence, convincingly and scrupulously demonstrating something quite unusual in the behavior sciences: a set of reliable empirical truths underpinned by coherent and parsimonious theory. The book is a classic statement of one of the most far-reaching implications for how we use and misuses groups in organizations"--Personnel Psychology"Their theoretical framework is illustrated in depth by numerous empirical investigations from around the world. . . .The book is essential reading for social and organizational psychologists, management scholars, and anyone working on intergroup relations and conflict issues."--European Foundation for Management DevelopmentGoing beyond the traditional view that compromising is a negative process, where group members merely comply in order to sustain cohesion, Conflict and Consensus argues that conflict is at the root of group decisions and can be a positive force leading to change in opinion and innovation. Once elaborated, Moscovici and Doise′s theoretical framework is illustrated by numerous empirical investigations from around the world, outlining the necessary conditions required to generate consensus and construct new social realities.This wide-ranging and comprehensive book is essential reading for scholars and students of organization studies, social psychology, and management studies.

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• Introduction
• The Problem
• What Use Are Groups?
• The Elementary Forms of Participation in Decisions and Consensus
• Extreme Conflicts and Consensuses
• The Effects of Private or Public Discussions
• Conflicts and Extreme Consensuses
• The Role of Values
• 'Warm and Cold' Communications
• Consensus in Closed and Open Groups
• Decision-Making

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CHOICE Review

Conflict and Consensus should be useful to those interested in group dynamics. The book discusses topics such as groups' functions, decision making, group conflict and consensus and the role of values in that process, and communication. Unfortunately, the work is inaccessible to all but the most determined reader. The organization is problematic and the prose is convoluted and awkward, although some of this may be the result of translation. There are enough grammatical and sentence-structure problems and gender-exclusive language to distract the reader wading through a text that is inherently difficult enough. The authors often make unsubstantiated assertions, and when they do present research, they do not follow protocol. For example, when citing the result from one of their own studies, Moscovici and Doise discuss it in the concluding section of a chapter rather than earlier, where one might expect to find it. The bibliography is weak on American research. Professionals/practitioners or researchers/faculty. J. Chin; Le Moyne College

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Serge Moscovici is Professor both at the Ecole de Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris and at the New School for Social Research, New York. Willem Doise is Professor in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Geneva.