Conflict Management CM

 Monday, May 25^th (Local times below)

 

Fabrice Lumineau

 

8 AM US Pacific

11 AM US Eastern

5 PM Amsterdam

11 PM Singapore

2 AM (next day) Melbourne

 

 

 

Collaboration is often viewed as inherently beneficial, yet it is a fragile architecture shaped by governance choices, power dynamics, and conflict. In this presentation, I trace the evolution of my research program on how interorganizational collaboration is designed, challenged, and reconfigured over time.

 

My early work examined the interplay between contracts and trust, showing how formal and relational governance mechanisms jointly shape cooperation and dispute resolution. I then expanded this agenda to explore the darker sides of collaboration, including opportunism, litigation, trust violations, and the role of communication and power in buyer–supplier relationships. More recently, I have studied emerging and extreme contexts-such as blockchain governance and war-that fundamentally reshape how organizations cooperate under uncertainty.

 

Across these streams, a central theme emerges: collaboration is not a given, but a system that must be structured, maintained, and sometimes rebuilt in the face of disruption. I conclude by outlining future research opportunities on governing collaboration in an era of technological change, geopolitical tension, and systemic risk.

 

 

 

Fabrice Lumineau is a Professor in Strategic Management at HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong.

 

His research examines inter-organizational partnerships, the interplay of contracts and trust in collaborative strategies, and conflict management. He has over 60 publications, including in the top management journals, such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Operations Management, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Production and Operations Management, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal. He has delivered over 250 presentations and ranks in Clarivate's ESI top 1% most-cited scholars worldwide.

 

Prof. Lumineau serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Management and on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization. He has held elected leadership roles with the AOM STR Executive Committee and chaired the Cooperative Strategies Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society. His distinctions include the Best Paper Award from the Business Policy and Strategy division and the Most Influential Article Award from the Conflict Management division at the Academy of Management Conference, the Discovery Early Career Research Award from the Australian Research Council, the Jay Ross Faculty Scholar Award at Purdue University, and multiple competitive grants, notably several Hong Kong RGC GRF awards.

 

He has held visiting appointments at INSEAD, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Toronto, and serves as an Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Security and Resilience (Stockholm School of Economics) and an External Advisory Board Member at the Center of Trust Studies (University of Arizona).

 

An award-winning educator across PhD, MBA/EMBA, MSc, BBA, and executive programs, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the "40 Under 40 Most Outstanding Business School Professors." A former project manager in insurance and investment banking, he earned his PhD from HEC Paris and has lived in France, the USA, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, and China.